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pelaca
02-16-2004, 11:32 AM
Anyone interested on this?

http://www.socketcom.com/images/bar/IS5006-245_450x450.gif
Clie Tapper
02-16-2004, 11:38 AM
Where did you see this Pelaca?

Clie Tapper
pelaca
02-16-2004, 11:42 AM
Originally posted by Clie Tapper
Where did you see this Pelaca?

Clie Tapper

On the Socket web page (http://www.socketcom.com/product/bar.asp?Type=Laser)
tovarish
02-16-2004, 02:41 PM
A CF Bluetooth card would be cool , *drools*
Narniahopper
02-16-2004, 02:57 PM
It looks like a great idea, but I don't currently know of any programs that could incorporate a barcode scanner (I'm sure some exist though).
pelaca
02-16-2004, 05:57 PM
Originally posted by Narniahopper
It looks like a great idea, but I don't currently know of any programs that could incorporate a barcode scanner (I'm sure some exist though).

Check THIS (http://www.ptshome.com/pdasoftware.htm)... and many other exist...
Dripps
02-16-2004, 06:31 PM
YES! I'm interested. Thanks pelaca!
Kanakanak
02-18-2004, 12:21 AM
I think some would like barcoding for use in specialized situations. Not a broad-appeal item, though. Maybe bluetooth would be useful to more. Just guessing, though ...
Kanakanak
02-18-2004, 12:23 AM
Originally posted by Kanakanak
I think some could out barcoding for use in specialized situations. Not a broad-appeal item, though. Maybe bluetooth would be useful to more. Just guessing, though ...



Sorry. That got out before proof-reading. Here goes again:

I think some could put barcoding to use in specialized situations. Not a broad-appeal item, though. Maybe bluetooth would be useful to more. Just guessing, though ...



Ummmm, okay then.
poissonsouriant
03-15-2004, 12:58 AM
Pelaca, please work on this, if at all possible. This would be of great help to me.
palmem
03-16-2004, 04:12 PM
Pelaca, I really don't think that there will be much of an appeal for this, as opposed to a bluetooth driver...
It just seems that a PDA is too expensive to use as a bar code scanner, but I don't know how much those things cost...

I would love it if you made a bluetooth driver,
Great job on all the other CF stuff!

-Palmer
poissonsouriant
03-17-2004, 01:13 AM
There are a lot of things that a Clie does that something could do cheaper, palmem. There are MP3 players that are cheaper than a Clie. There are many PalmOS handhelds that are cheaper than a Clie. Ditto for digital cameras and voice recorders. What makes a Clie is that it combines all of those devices into one.

Adding a barcode scanner would be good, and it seem that Pelaca might be able and even willing to do that. There have been no indications that a Pelaca even wants to make a Bluetooth driver.

Thank you Pelaca, for all that you've done for Clie users everywhere.
pelaca
03-17-2004, 08:41 AM
Anyone interested enough to send me one card?
Kanakanak
03-18-2004, 01:11 AM
Pelaca, doesn't a Palm OS driver already exist for this at http://www.socketcom.com/support/support_bar.asp?Type=SDIO? What is it you plan to do?
pelaca
03-18-2004, 08:34 AM
Woow... Well I leave this... has no sense with this new info.
Thanks kanakanak!!!
spidey
03-18-2004, 08:46 AM
From the looks of the manual, That driver is for the SD card version not the CF scanner.

I've had a serial barcode scanner connected to my CLIE serial port before, it was a very inexpensive solution. Serial bar code scanners can be found cheap! IIRC, there was even a way to turn a Cuecat into serial.
Kanakanak
03-18-2004, 09:05 AM
Originally posted by spidey
From the looks of the manual, That driver is for the SD card version not the CF scanner.

I've had a serial barcode scanner connected to my CLIE serial port before, it was a very inexpensive solution. Serial bar code scanners can be found cheap! IIRC, there was even a way to turn a Cuecat into serial.


I looked further. Appears Spidey is right. The Palm OS driver is for the SDIO version. Socket appears to have no software download for either of its CF versions (Laser type 1 or Laser type 2). I had to dig a little deeper to find the manual for the CF units, but once you download and open it, you see that refeerences are to Windows Powered Pocket PC's only and not the Palm.
Kanakanak
03-18-2004, 09:07 AM
I wonder if the answer might just be some kind of a SD/CF hardware-based plug converter for the SDIO unit? If such a thing exists.
spidey
03-18-2004, 11:18 AM
IMO you'd still need a Pelaca style driver for anything plugged into the CF slot except the Sony WLAN cards. Makes me wonder, since most of these CF cards are using serial, howcome a standard CF Serial driver won't work? CF GPS is a serial driver right Pelaca? Why wouldn't any CF card that uses the same serial chip (Oxford?) work?