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| My Velo came with a NiMh battery pack, however, I just put it away and installed AA batteries  |
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| Jake - 2005-12-08 3:12 AM
Dunno if you "new" Velo folks have a working NiMh battery pack, but mine came with two, both homemade, neither particularly good (the two batteries are untabbed and joine by tape, good grief).
So I ordered two tabbed 2200 AA batteries and bought the 10k_1/4watt resistor from Radio Shack, and I'll build my own.
If it works, I'll post, but I found lots of do-it-yourself Velo pack advice on the web. At one time, the Velo had quite a following. Jason Dunn's site is still the overlord, and thank goodness he hasn't taken it down. I learned a LOT from him.
is the jason dunn site still online? it was a few months ago but no longer is. has he put it back online then? a few weeks ago it wasn't available, so i used google cache and archive.org... (but i saw it earlier too when it was still online )
i never got a nimh battery pack with it, i'm using plain ni-mh's in my velo 1, and charge them externally. |
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| Jake - 2005-12-08 3:12 AM
Dunno if you "new" Velo folks have a working NiMh battery pack, but mine came with two, both homemade, neither particularly good (the two batteries are untabbed and joine by tape, good grief).
So I ordered two tabbed 2200 AA batteries and bought the 10k_1/4watt resistor from Radio Shack, and I'll build my own.
If it works, I'll post, but I found lots of do-it-yourself Velo pack advice on the web. At one time, the Velo had quite a following. Jason Dunn's site is still the overlord, and thank goodness he hasn't taken it down. I learned a LOT from him.
Jake
can't remember if i already posted an answer to this.. (got up too early.. for nothing  ) so..
is the jason dunn site still online? it was a few months ago but no longer is. has he put it back online then? a few weeks ago it wasn't available, so i used google cache and archive.org... (but i saw it earlier too when it was still online )
i never got a nimh battery pack with it, i'm using plain ni-mh's in my velo 1, and charge them externally. |
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| looks like it didn't get registered, my post.. probably i posted it twice then.. |
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| Jake - 2005-12-10 11:24 AM
Typing's a chore, though, don't you think?
Yes... Worse than my 2010c, I might add... |
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| cmonex--sorry, didn't see your J Dunn post. Here's the link:
http://www.jasondunn.com/archive/velo/whatsnew.htm
Is the typing substantially easier on the Ericson MC12? Or is it all pretty relative once you get away from the Jornada keyboard?
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| Jake - 2005-12-10 9:12 PM
thanks for the link.  so they're back online. cool.
MC12? a little better than on the velo 1, but the sharp 4100 is a wonder in this respect. i never thought i could easily type on a thing that doesn't have a notebook style keyboard (like psions or jornadas ), but i can on this thing!!
of course this may be a personal preference... but the keys are really sensitive, still not oversensitive, they're easy to press and comfortable to type on. 
it (sharp hc-4100 ) runs CE 2.0, has a BW screen and uses plain AA's. Edited by cmonex 2005-12-10 4:00 PM
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| Thanks for the comparison.
Hey, did you ever get EzOBEX to run on your CE 2.0 MIPS device?
http://masataka.mailbbs.com/ez/en/
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| sorry i forgot to try it 
i will tomorrow (too tired right now, going to bed )! |
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| I do not have a CE 2 MIPS device anymore to try it on... |
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| While we wait with bated breath for cmonex's EZOBEX results, I have a Velo typing tip (I think ):
I found that typing on the Velo was very slow, that the machine didn't register all the keystrokes, so words were constantly incomplete.
I've alleviated a lot of this hassle by a ) only using the standard fonts of New Times Roman and Tahoma (I had installed Arial in Windows\Fonts and that was a problem ) b ) switching to 4-gray scale, down from 16
The machine now has an easier time with input, but this may be because I'm running the 2.0 upgrade on only 8 megs.
And I don't know if the machine is slow to respond when running CE 1.0
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| Jake - 2005-12-14 7:55 PM
While we wait with bated breath for cmonex's EZOBEX results, I have a Velo typing tip (I think ):
I found that typing on the Velo was very slow, that the machine didn't register all the keystrokes, so words were constantly incomplete.
I've alleviated a lot of this hassle by a ) only using the standard fonts of New Times Roman and Tahoma (I had installed Arial in Windows\Fonts and that was a problem ) b ) switching to 4-gray scale, down from 16
The machine now has an easier time with input, but this may be because I'm running the 2.0 upgrade on only 8 megs.
And I don't know if the machine is slow to respond when running CE 1.0
ah i promise i'll have time for that soon 
velo typing tip... well i don't have this slow typing problem on CE 1, just the keys themselves aren't that comfortable.
generally the machine is much faster in responding than the casio A-10 or the MC16. |
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| Well, typing on my Velo 1 is hard, however it does not have anything to do with the software, it is just the fact that the keys are not that good for touch-typing...  |
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| tenjeangosi - 2005-12-14 10:17 PM
Well, typing on my Velo 1 is hard, however it does not have anything to do with the software, it is just the fact that the keys are not that good for touch-typing...
as i said, get a sharp hc-4100 hopefully you'd like it as much as i do... |
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| How is typing on the 360 LX? |
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