This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Need info on connecting pager to pc.
Article: 7481 of alt.hackers From: atilghma@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Adam Tilghman) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Need info on connecting pager to pc. Date: 4 Mar 1995 19:40:12 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 28 Approved: Sittin' tight in Stormy San Diego <root@devnull.org> Message-ID: 3jafms$l0j@network.ucsd.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcc10.ucsd.edu Status: RO
In article <3j5bbk$gcm@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com> gregc@fullfeed.com (Greg Corey) writes: >Secondly, the only way you could really hook the pager up would be to know >what the 6 or so pins that connect the two card parts are (at least, I'm >assuming your Bravo Express is similar to my Bravo Plus)... since I can't >even think of why you would WANT to hook a pager up to the PC, I'd *love* to plug a pager into my cheesy 286 laptop. My home PC would encode my e-mail into a funky 12-character alphabet and send it, 22 numbers at a time, to my laptop. Slow, but hey:-) That's what unlimited pages/month service plans are for! HP sells an add-on to its HP100LX (or whatever it's become these days) that's an alphanumeric pager receiver. I dunno if it's rs232-based, or if it uses their own bus, or what, but it might be worth looking into... -- adam ObIdiotDOSHack: getting DOS 6.0 to install itself on that cheesy Sharp laptop. You see, it has DOS 4.0 in ROM, and no floppy drive. DOS wanted to save a "backup" of the DOS 4 configuration on the floppy drive... Setting the ROM disk to drive A:, and running SETUP with some flag (SETUP /? listed it) caused it to search for drive A: but not attempt to save anything to it. -- Adam G. Tilghman | email: | voice: | Rng FCNZ naq yvir. | atilghma@mib.org | +1 619 658 0743 | Cyhf PurrmJvm?
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