Magic Cap Users Mailing List

Tuesday August 27, 1996

From: Steve Cooley <Stevec@POBOX.COM>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 23:57:53 +0000
Subject: Question to Sony/GenMagic

Hey, I was looking in the new Popular Science reading in the what's new
section...  And what did I see but a color touchscreen pen-based new
Zaurus ( I think..)  ...I want a color magic cap device... hell yeah,
that'd be the bomb.

From: Wayne Sanderson <whsander@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:09:10 -0700
Subject: Question to Sony/GenMagic

Steve Cooley writes:
> Hey, I was looking in the new Popular Science
> reading in the what's new
> section...  And what did I see but a color
> touchscreen pen-based new
> Zaurus ( I think..)  ...I want a color magic cap
> device... hell yeah,
> that'd be the bomb.

That Zaurus you saw is the device that Sharp has been selling in Japan for a
couple of years, albeit without the color screen. The only think that the US
version of the device has in common with the Japanese version reportedly is
the name, having no keyboard and featuring built in handwriting recognition.
The Japanese Z-7000 took that market by storm, and now it is offerred with a
color screen and avideo camera. Had Sharp marketed that device here from the
beginning, the PDA market might be very different right now. They might not
sell that Zaurus here.

From: Lee Butler <leebu@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:45:59 -0700
Subject: Freestyle xfer solved

Magic:

Just wanted to pass along the answer to a question I sent out awhile back on
Freestyle and data tranfer using magic exchange for windows...

To move data between freestyle and windows you need magic exchange version 1.1.  Once I upgraded everything is working.

Thanks go to Software Partners tech support.  They were a little slow
responding but did get me working.

Ps: Intellelink order lines will tell you 1.1 does not work with freestyle,
but it does...

Thanks,
Lee Butler
Consultant
leebu@ix.netcom.com
Phone:303.843.1738          Pager:800.480.9079

From: Richard Brodsky <rbro@WCO.COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:53:27 -0000
Subject: Re: BAMCUG#3 Guest Speaker

>Our very own Mark Perreira will be demonstrating his homemade cable that
>allows the Magic Port to be connected to either a Ricochet wireless modem or
>an external landline standard modem (both situations also require the Sony
>Wireless software for $49).  The modified Magic Exchange cable can also then
>be used once again as a standard Magic Exchange cable.  (This is surely a
>major accomplishment as both General Magic and Ricochet have been unable to
>procure/fabricate/kludge such a cable for the last 3+ months!)
>
>By the end of the meeting we hope to have some preliminary thruput
>comparisons of the Ricochet, Internal 14.4, external 14.4 and 28.8 external
>modems.
>
>Once again the meeting will be at 7:00 PM this Thursday at General Magic in
>Sunnyvale, CA.
>
>Re posting of this message is encouraged for AOL, Compuse
Is this cable available for purchase?

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From: Richard Brown <A5403644662@ATTPLS.NET>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:56:36 +0000
Subject: Presto/coupon/Sony

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Has anyone that sent in the coupon to Sony for Presto mail actually
received it ?
4 days and counting.

From: OPC_office <A5043644623@ATTPLS.NET>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 02:58:37 +0000
Subject: the coupon

I'll assume the coupon offer was well intended. But it does leave a bad
taste. I bought my copy of PrestoMail the other day. Had to.  Good
thing too. Spend a day going through the maze of finding an ISP. It was
very fustrating at times. Don't ever make the mistake of saying "Magic
Cap" to anyone and then expect them to take you seriously. Before
yesterday I didn't know a POP from a PPP from a password from a login.
That was one reason I bought my Magic Link many moons ago. I thought I
wasn't going to have too. The point is, it (PrestoMail) needs a little
learning time. It looks at this point the free copies will not arrive
till after PLS is closed. All in all I am pleased with the package. It
works. I do miss the telescript ATTPLS rules greatly. I still have the
problem of getting the rest of our links online. I used ATT WorldNET
for my Envoy and it worked fine. The rest of our units will just be
used to send and retrieve e-mail a couple of hours (max) per month. I
really don't want to pay NetCom $20 for that. Are there any choices.
Also, I don't want to have to sign up from PC, just want them to give
me an account. A provider that will allow different e-mail names under
one account would be ideal. Anyone have any recommendations.

I'm off to the Diner.

Paul McHugh

From: Johnny Culver <MrsTroi@AOL.COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:08:35 -0400
Subject: Presto/coupon/Sony

[This message may have contained graphics created by a Magic Cap device on
America Online.]

Dear Magic,
Yea, and I was given the brushoff. BUT they have a whole department working
on this.