[SPARCbook] Car

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hello,

> Hey, I remember a while back someone asking about using his SB3 with a
> car adapter.  Anyone know of a good one?  There was a lenghty debate
> about power, so now I'm really quite paraniod.  URL's to such products
> would be very helpful ass well.

Tadpole sells or at least sold a lighter adapter/regulator.  It works
well, and like the SPARCBook3, is in my opinion very well built.

> How much shock can the disk take?  I want to get one of those things
> (don't know what to call it) that cops have to mount their laptops on,

I can't answer that question.

> and put it in my car.  Also, has anyone used their sparcbook with a cell
> phone?  How does that work?  Does the modem dial the number, or do you
> have to manually do it?

I use my SPARCBook with a Motorola Mariner (or Montana?) modem, 
and a special cellphone cable to a Motorola cellphone.  I just send
an ATDT and the phone number, and it dials and does everything it needs
to itself.  You may have some problems finding these modems though, since
Motorola doesn't make this model modem any more, and of course it depends
on what kind of cellphone you have as well as the modem and cable.

-Mark


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Mark G. Thomas (Mark at Misty.com -- http://www.misty.com/)