RE: TI-H: Windows CE / Velo link
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RE: TI-H: Windows CE / Velo link
There was a lot of interest in this in the CE community when the first units
came out, but I am not sure if anyone ever got anywhere. From a hardware
standpoint the Casio unit looked like it might be the easiest to do because
it has a second com port that uses the same connector as the TI calcs. It
would be conveinient if anyone could get it to work, but I have not seen
anything.
Gearry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Eilon Lipton
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 3:43 PM
> To: TI-Hardware
> Subject: TI-H: Windows CE / Velo link
>
>
>
> OK, the usual "this is my first posting here" stuff goes here.
>
> Hello everybody,
> I was wondering if there was anybody working on a link cable
> and software
> for Windows CE Handheld/PCs. I use a Philips Velo 500 16MB
> (http://velo.philips.com) and a TI-86. The Velo has a serial port which is
> used to connect to PCs for synchronization of contacts,
> appointments, files,
> etc. Since there is no room on it for a standard 9-pin serial connector,
> there is a special wire adapter when hooking it up to PCs. How exactly the
> serial port works in terms of the Windows CE API (which is a subset of
> Win32, though it has extras for special HPC features) I am not sure. The
> problem is that you need the Windows CE Toolkit (for Visual C++,
> VB, or VJ)
> in order to write software for the CPUs the HPCs use, and it
> costs $200 from
> Microsoft. The Velo 500 uses a MIPS R4000 CPU, other vendors use
> the Hitachi
> SH3 CPU, and there are other less popular CPUs.
> Anyway, has anybody been working on such a product? Anybody even
> interested?
>
>
> Eilon Lipton
> yoe@mediaone.net
>
>
>
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