Re: Please Help?

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From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 14:39:57 EDT


Sorry about so many questions but I need to know more to be able to help.

farracrs wrote:

> I am a teacher at a high school in Canada. We were recently gifted with 2
> IBM ThinkPad 750C laptops.

How much memory? (it shows on the screen on powerup).
Are you running windows 3.1 or later on the laptops?.

> Neither have come with CD drives. We are
> thrilled to have these and plan to use them for the sewing and embroidery
> programmes. The kids purchased 2 Pfaff embroidery machines

What model number { Pfaff machine} and do you have "Pfaff PC-Designer"
(software for the machine)?

> through sales
> and such and wish to design on the computers then send to the PCMCIA cards
> in the machines.

Do the Pfaff machines have RS-232 connections on them?
My wife's Pfaff 7570 machine does.

> Both computers have 340 mg hard drives, we need to upgrade
> these if possible. One has a 131 Mg Maxtor PCMCIA card, that we do not know
> how to use. there are 2, 14.4 modems also no clue as to how to use. We to
> find product numbers for the External CD drives, one would probably do just
> to load programmes.

Do you have a desktop machine with RS-232 and a cdrom drive available?

> Any help is greatly appreciated. The classes will
> start in November and I have to at least be able to fake knowledge of these
> machines. Thanks for your time.

I am a thirty+ year veteran of the personal computer wars and my wife teaches
Pfaff (and others} classes.
Cheers Bert


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