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- From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- Subject: Re: Psion 3S w/o a PC
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:55:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.055505.24105@mixcom.com>
- References: <1992Dec28.164226.26714@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: ccvvcc@mixcom.com (James Gorak)
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- In <1992Dec28.164226.26714@alw.nih.gov> weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
-
- >I posted a similar thing about 6 months ago when I was dreaming about
- >buying an HP 95. Now I'm dreaming (maybe more seriously) about buying
- >a Psion Series 3S and am wondering if anyone has one, but doesn't have a
- >PC. Is there anyway to transfer data (spreadsheet, database) to/from
- >something other than a PC or Mac (oh, I don't know, maybe something
- >like, uh... a SPARCstation :-).
-
- >If anyone has had experience living with a Psion 3 without owning a PC,
- >please let me know. (A $1,500 P.C. would be an expensive peripheral for
- >the Psion).
-
- With the optional S3 Serial 3 Link you can transfer files between
- anything that has a serial port and supports XMODEM or YMODEM. It is
- also possible to do a plain ASCII transfer.
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- James.Gorak@mixcom.com
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