snoopy@ixos.UUCP (Snoopy Schmitz) (12/08/89)
Dear Net, I am about to go out and buy a CASIO SF7500 electronic diary. (For Yuppies bored with their Filofaxes ;-) ) I have some questions regarding this product, perhaps someone out there has one and can help me. 0) How is the product ? Are you "happy" with it ? Is it useful ? would you recommend it ? 1) Is the CASIO SF7500 (on sale in Europe) the same as the CASIO BOSS product ? What exactly is the CASIO BOSS ? 2) I realise that one can buy a(n expensive) cable to connect the SF 7500 to an IBM PC for backup of the data etc. I wonder if someone has the make-up of the cable, I am sure that I can make one myself. I refuse to fork out about 90$ for parts worth about $10. 3) The above $90 does include some SW to run on the PC for the backup. I doubt that there is a UNIX version. Maybe there is one, perhaps someone out there knows. Has anyone written some software for UNIX themselves ? 4) In order to do 3) above myself, I would need to know the dataformat of the data out of and into the SF 7500, so that I can write a proggie myself. MAXINT Thanks to all of you, Love, Snoopy -- uunet!unido!ixos!snoopy -or- snoopy@ixos.uucp "Every passing hour brings the solar system 43,000 miles closer to globular cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress." - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
rochlin@arktos.pa.dec.com (Max Rochlin) (12/13/89)
snoopy@ixos.UUCP (Snoopy Schmitz) writes: > I am about to go out and buy a CASIO SF7500 electronic diary. Great choice, I bought one about seven months ago and love it. > What exactly is the CASIO BOSS ? The new Marketing name for the SF-X where X > 6900. > (complaints about the cable and cost) There's a lot of electronics in the DB25 side of the cable. I haven't taken the time to decode it all. The cable and PC software work well, I haven't gotten a hold of the Mac version. There is no plan yet for a native UNIX version of the SW. > need to know the dataformat of the data out of and into the SF > 7500, so that I can write a proggie myself. The data format is simple ASCII, but the handshaking that goes on is rather significant during uploading and downloading. (good luck). DATA FORMAT: ( Scheduler meets Accounting 101) PhoneBook entries start :0000LAST FIRST BusiCard Entries start :0100COMPANY PNAME Memos :0200StartOfMemo Schedule: :0300YYYY-MM-DD STIME ETIME ATIME SchedText Setting the low order bit on indicates a marked record eg: PhoneBook entries start :0001LAST FIRST is marked The "next line" button in text fields places a \0D in the record. Basically each record is stored in prompt order and prefixed with an 'area identifier.' Very easy to edit on a worstation or PC, move to your favorite DB or whatever. |---------------------------------------------------------------\ | Revenons a nos moutons... | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | rochlin@decwrl.dec.com {sun,uunet}saxony!madmax!max | | rochlin@arktos.pa.dec.com apple!madmax!max | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) (12/13/89)
I looked at the Casio, but for a little more money I went with the Atari Portfolio. Check it out.