Re: 3 Questions about the iPAQ

From: Martin Heimes <martin.heimes.a.t.gmx.de>
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 15:19:59 EDT

Cameron,

links i have seen at
http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/HardwareProjects

...
> Familiar, but I have no serial cable. I really don't want to spend $30
> bucks on it, so does anyone know of some schematics or something so that
> I could make my own? (i did see the cradle hack, but the 3100's only
> come w/ a USB-cable)
http://www.foxconn.com/products/ipaq.asp
look for CQV12D04D09-01.pdf the startac plug has a nose at the ipaq
bottom side and is flat at the upper side.

>
> 2) I really want a hard-drive on this thing so that I can fit a lot of
> devel stuff, and mp3's (hehe, i need my punk-rock at all times).
> anyway, I've been trying to figure out what would fit in my budget, and
> give me a reasonable amount of space (few hundred meg), should I go w/
> PC-card sleeve, or CF? Does anyone know of some killer deals on
> sleeves/drives?
http://www.addonics.com/ make external HDD enclosures with PCMCIA cable.
Put in a 2,5" or 3,5" IDE HDD. Cheap but a little clumsy.

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Martin Heimes
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Received on Wed Aug 22 12:07:35 2001

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