Re: new member

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

At 1:31 PM 5/10/96, Juan Carlos Sibal wrote:

>My name is Carlos Sibal and I'm a new subscriber to this list.  I have a 701C
>DX2/50 and am currently running Win95 w/ 12mb RAM -- its feeling a bit

>speed using Win95's dial up networking and Netscape Gold 2.0. I'm using the
>Nimh battery and get between 1.75hrs to 2.5 hrs of heavy usage. During light
>usage about 3 to 4 hrs.  I've noticed a sharp degradation in battery life
>though since I started leaving the Panasonic SCSI PC card in the slot-- I'm
>aware that it draws current but isn't it suppose to "sleep" or go into
>standby when the computer is in standby(not hibernate) mode?

        You may have missed the fact that Win '95's PCMCIA drivers don't
manage power well (maybe not at all).  I read somewhere that you may want
to use your IBM/ThinkPad PCMCIA drivers (the old DOS ones) instead.
They're not 32-bit, but they do power down the cards when appropriate.


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Randy Whittle           whittle@usc.edu         http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle
USC Graduate School of Business

        Women often ask, "What do men really want, deep in their souls?"
The best answer--based on in-depth analysis of the complex and subtle
interplay of thought, instinct, and emotion that constitutes the male psyche
--is that deep in their souls, men want to watch stuff go 'bang'.
                - Dave Barry, October 2, 1994