Re: IdDA & TP701 Success

[Daniel Kim <dpkim@husc.HARVARD.EDU>]

I have a recently purchased, demo 701cs 486 DX4.  I have been a mac user, 
and have been so fed up with the quality of their powerbooks that I have 
decided to go bi-platform, keeping my powermac desktop and purchasing the 
tp.  I haven't loaded any software on it, and from the posts of this 
group, it sounds like I'll be having a lot of fun putting W95 on.  My 
bios revision is BUTUS3H.  

Do I have to revise the bios to get the Windows 95 going?

Also, I would love to be able to transfer files between the two different 
platforms without having to use floppies.  Sounds like the Jeteye has 
worked for you, Chris.  How much can you actually acomplish with this 
set-up?  Can I use the CD ROM on my Macintosh and transfer stuff to my 
thinkpad (a Windows 95 upgrade CD, for example)?  Can I transfer MS Word 
documents back and forth this way? What do you mean when you say

"It only communicates at 115200, so unless
your software (and serial port) can do that, you won't be able to
use it."   

Any warnings before I start configuring this sweet machine, considering 
my stats?  

Thank you in advance.
Daniel


On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Chris Osborn wrote:

> On Apr. 04 96, 07:52 PST, "John D. Griffith" <griffith@kodak.com>
> 
> > Do these irDa devices require special drivers to operate or are
> > they simply  hardware devices  that would work with any program
> > (e.g.  kermit) that talks politely  with the serial port under NT??
> 
> The JetEye that I have just connects to the serial port and translates
> serial data to/from IrDA. It only communicates at 115200, so unless
> your software (and serial port) can do that, you won't be able to
> use it.
> 
> But it doesn't require any special drivers to use the device. I
> have mine connected to my Mac, and I've been able to communicate
> between my ThinkPad and my Mac (not useful, but it was the only
> desktop I had that could do 115200).
> 
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