przemek@liszt.helios.nd.edu (Przemek Klosowski) (10/26/90)
Hello! Some time ago I purchased a credit card size personal electronic notebook (called DataStore 8000, from Selectronics). It is a nice thing, with 8K of persistent memory, clock/calendar and several day/hour alarms. It costs only 20$, and it was carried by several mail order places like Damark and maybe DAK. Besides normal keyboard/display it has a connector allowing it to upload/download data; I plan to use the printer port in my PC to do it. I obtained the electrical characteristics of this connector, but when I called Selectronics to get the data formats and such, they claimed it proprietary. They sell the cable and downloading program for 50$, which, compared to the price of the 'hardware', seems steep. Knowing the basics, I want to reverse engineer the thing. The questions are 1) Did anyone do it already? 2) Is anyone interested in info exchange? 3) Is there another newsgroup to which I could post? Cheers to everyone przemek -- przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcva.cc.nd.edu) Physics Dept University of Notre Dame IN 46556