Gallery : HP200LX

Gallery : HP200LX

 

[caption id="attachment_161" align="alignnone" width="300"] (Photo AFP - Toshiki Shirose)[/caption]

 

This is the famous HP200LX with Japanese language manual.

 

CPU is 80186 (Almost equal V30 in PC-9801 VM).

 

16 bit.

 

Original CPU clock is 8 MHz.

 

Memory is 2 Mega bytes, can be memory disk.

 

Hardware is IBM PC/XT compatible.

 

OS is MS-DOS and System Manager graphical interface.

 

HP200LX is with System Manager graphical interface.

 

LCD is IBM compatible CGA, Monochrome, 320 dots x 200 dots,  or 640 dots x 200 dots.

 

PCMCIA Card interface socket x 1.

 

C: Drive is a memory disk in a memory inside HP200LX.

 

EMS memory can make in memory disk.

 

Boot from C: Drive or PCMCIA memory disk as A: Drive.

 

Size is 16 cm x 8.5 cm x, height 2.5 cm.

 

HP200LX is a small and a handheld 16-bit personal computer.

 

Too many users were in the world, APEC considered so.

 

Built-in Lotus 1-2-3 is an useful.

 

Compact Flash memory into PCMCIA Compact Flash socket, and into HP200LX, was an easy to use PCMCIA memory disk as A: Drive.

 

We must format PCMCIA memory disk with format command with option /s switch in MS-DOS.

 

C:¥> format /s a:

 

means format and system transfer to A: drive.

 

32 Mega bytes Compact Flash memory is in this HP200LX.

 

HP200LX is a famous of its tough body.

 

This HP200LX is with 2 x CPU.

 

We must add clkup31m.sys to clear display flicker.

 

Hex Calculator is an useful.

 

Phone number memo was in HP200LX.

 

HP200LX is with CR2032 coin battery and AA battery x 2.

 

Text and article writing is a funny and an useful.

 

HP200LX is discontinued but still expensive (ex) In Internet Auction, higher price than ASUS eee PC 4G second hand).

 

Home work : Check ADM3202AN DIP IC (3.3 Volts - 5 Volts RS-232C level converter).

 

(Photo AFP - Toshiki Shirose)

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 30 Wednesday April 2014 The Roman)

 

Researchers use Twitter to predict crime

Researchers use Twitter to predict crime

 

Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters -- even before a crime has been committed.

 

Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied.

 

A research paper published in the scientific journal Decision Support Systems last month said the analysis of geo-tagged tweets can be useful in predicting 19 to 25 kinds of crimes, especially for offenses such as stalking, thefts and certain kinds of assault.

 

The results are surprising, especially when one considers that people rarely tweet about crimes directly, said lead researcher Matthew Gerber of the university's Predictive Technology Lab.

 

Gerber said even tweets that have no direct link to crimes may contain information about activities often associated with them.

 

"What people are tweeting about are their routine activities," Gerber told AFP.

 

"Those routine activities take them into environments where crime is likely to happen.

 

"So if I tweet about getting drunk tonight, and a lot of people are talking about getting drunk, we know there are certain crimes associated with those things that produce crimes. It's indirect."

 

For the study, Gerber and his colleagues analyzed tweets from the city of Chicago tagged to certain neighborhoods -- measured by individual square kilometers -- and the city's crime database.

 

They then looked forward and were able to make useful predictions about areas where certain crimes were likely to occur -- something which could be helpful in deployment of police resources.

 

"This approach allows the analyst to rapidly visualize and identify areas with historically high crime concentrations," said the study.

 

"Future crimes often occur in the vicinity of past crimes, making hot-spot maps a valuable crime prediction tool."

 

In recent years, the idea of "predictive policing" has gained momentum, with police departments relying on "big data" analytics from companies such as IBM.

 

This research comes on the heels of other studies showing how tweets can be analyzed to predict elections, disease outbreaks and other important events.

 

- 'I send our algorithms' -

 

Gerber said Twitter data can be relatively easy to use because tweets are publicly available, and many of them are tagged with location information.

 

In addition, researchers, themselves, do not need to go into the high-crime areas to study the information.

 

Instead, "I send our algorithms to these locations and see what people are talking about," Gerber said.

 

"The computer algorithm learns the pattern and produces a prediction."

 

The study was funded by the US Army, which Gerber said uses similar techniques to determine threats in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

There are limitations, Gerber notes.

 

Adequate historical data is needed, and some kinds of crimes, such as kidnapping and arson, may not fall into the same patterns of predictability, for reasons the researchers could not explain.

 

Still, he said the New York police department has already contacted him, and he has begun to review data from that city to determine if the results from Chicago can be replicated.

 

He hopes to be able to draw on information from other social media to see if they can help improve the predictions.

 

An important goal, ultimately, is to figure out if the technique can be used in a very practical way.

 

"We did not address whether this reduces crime," he said.

 

"That's one of the next steps."

 

Copyright © 2014 AFP. All rights reserved.

 

(Agence France-Presse, 20 Sunday April 2014 The Roman)

 

Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace

Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace

 

[caption id="attachment_154" align="alignnone" width="300"] (Google bought Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to bring Internet access to remote parts of the world, among other benefits. (File photo: Shutterstock))[/caption]

 

Google has bought Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, saying it could help bring Internet access to remote parts of the world as well as solve other problems.

 

Financial terms were not disclosed.

 

Google Inc. said Monday that atmospheric satellites could also be used in disaster relief and assessing environmental damage.

 

Titan’s atmospheric satellites, which are still in development and not yet commercially available, can stay in the air for as long as five years, according to reports.

 

Before it was updated Monday to reflect the acquisition, Titan’s website cited a wide range of uses for the drones, including atmospheric and weather monitoring, disaster response and voice and data communications.

 

Facebook Inc. was also in talks to buy New Mexico-based Titan earlier this year, but it acquired U.K.-based solar drone company Ascenta instead.

 

Both Google and Facebook have launched ambitious projects that aim to get everyone on the planet online.

 

Google’s Project Loon sends giant balloons bearing Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere.

 

(The Associated Press, New York)

 

(Al Arabiya News, 15 Tuesday April 2014 The Roman)

 

From where to start wire wrapping?

From where to start wire wrapping?

 

From where to start wire wrapping ?

 

There are no rule.

 

But, Toshiki Shirose has his own rule.

 

If PC16F84A (18 pin), 1 pin to connect to destination pin, 10 pin to connect to destination pin.

 

Connect to destinations from 2 pin cross on IC.

 

Then PIC16F84A will be fixed on assembly board.

 

All IC is so.

 

And wire wrapping is for wire wrapping IC socket.

 

This is an easy.

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 19 Saturday April 2014 The Roman)

 

Amazon hit by new strikes in Germany

Amazon hit by new strikes in Germany

 

Two of Amazon's key sites in Germany were the target of fresh walkouts by staff on Thursday in an long-running wage dispute.

 

The services sector union Verdi has called for full-day stoppages at Amazon's logistics centres in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld.

 

Participation was "good," a Verdi spokesman told AFP, without specifying how many employees took part in the strike.

 

Amazon has a workforce of around 2,000 in Leipzig and 3,300 at Bad Hersfeld.

 

Amazon has a total of nine sites in Germany and has been regularly hit by walkouts over the past year.

 

Verdi has been trying for months to get Amazon to bring the pay of its 9,000 workers in Germany in line with wages in the distribution sector.

 

Amazon refuses, arguing that its distribution centres are logistic sites and that it pays its staff accordingly.

 

Wages in the logistics sector in Germany are lower than in the distribution sector.

 

Copyright © 2014 AFP. All rights reserved.

 

(Agence France-Presse, 17 Thursday April 2014 The Roman)

 

Parts arrives

Parts arrives

 

[caption id="attachment_142" align="alignnone" width="300"] (Photo AFP - Toshiki Shirose)[/caption]

 

Parts arrived at 18 Friday April 2014 The Roman.

 

We opened boxes.

 

Here is the photograph.

 

We will take photographs for each parts.

 

Today is a rain around Yokohama.

 

Parts arrived from Tokyo.

 

Boxes are on our desk for hardware making now.

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 18 Friday April 2014 The Roman)

 

Shopping note -1

Shopping note -1

 

15 Tuesday April 2014 The Roman was our Pay-Day.

 

We bought these parts from Akihabara with Internet shopping.

 

 

PIC16F84A-20

(250 yen x 2 = 500 yen)

 

Battery box

(40 yen x 1 = 40 yen)

 

Celamic oscillator 20 MHz

(40 yen x 2 = 80 yen)

 

SG-8002DC (3.3 Volts, 20 MHz)

(300 yen x 1 = 300 yen)

 

Assembly board (155 mm x 114 mm)

(400 yen x 1 = 400 yen)

 

FM Sound IC: YMZ294 (YAMAHA) (With Datasheet)

(500 yen x 1 = 500 yen)

 

SG-8002DC (5 Volts, 4.194304 MHz)

(300 yen x 1 = 300 yen)

 

Switch with LED

(150 yen x 1 = 150 yen)

 

TOTAL 2270 YEN

 

And shipping is 500 yen.

 

 

Pay-Day is a happy day.

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 17 Thursday April 2014 The Roman)

 

We made additional orders to another shop in Akihabara with Internet shopping.

 

IC Socket 18 pin for wire wrapping

 

OMRON XR2A-1802

(370 yen x 1 = 370 yen)

 

IC Socket 8 pin for wire wrapping

 

OMRON XR2A-0802

(180 yen x 2 = 360 yen)

 

Flat cable connector 2.54 mm pitch 30 pin for wire wrapping

 

Hirose electric HIF3BA-30P-2.54W

(480 yen x 1 = 480 yen)

 

PARTS TOTAL 1210 YEN

TAX 96 YEN

SHIPPING 486 YEN

TOTAL 1792 YEN

 

 

Pay-Day is a happy day.

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 17 Thursday April 2014 The Roman)

 

 

From Reader: Takako Shirose (Takako Uehara of SPEED, PIC Tryer)

From Reader: Takako Shirose (Takako Uehara of SPEED, PIC Tryer)

 



 

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I am happy to learn how computer is working !!

 

"

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 12 Saturday April 2014 The Roman)

PIC16F84A 1 Board Micro Computer CPU Board Draft -2

PIC16F84A 1 Board Micro Computer CPU Board Draft -2

 

[caption id="attachment_119" align="alignnone" width="300"] (8-bit PIC16F84A 1 Board Micro Computer CPU Board image illustration (Illustration AFP - Toshiki Shirose))[/caption]

 

CPU : PIC16F84A, 18 pin

 

Crystal : SG-8002DC (3.3 Volts), 20 MHz, 4 pin (8 pin Socket)

 

By-pass condenser for Crystal Socket : 8 pin IC Socket

 

Switch : with LED, 2 pin

 

Battery : 1.5 Volts x 2, AA or AAA (It is selected by you)

 

Battery case : 2 pin

 

Direct Bus Interface Socket : Pitch 2.54 mm, 30 pin (15 pin x 2) x 1

 

2.54 mm x 40 pin = 101.6 mm, nearly equal 10 cm, then,

 

Assembly board : 10 cm x 15 cm

 

CPU socket : 18 pin x 1, 8 pin x 2 (For wire wrapping type socket, long leg type socket)

 

Assembly board legs (Spacer) : 4 cm length x 4 (For CPU Board not to electric short on your desk)

 

Wire wrapping cable

 

Wire wrapping tool

 

Drivers

 

Wire wrapping cable stripper

 

When we had done making this CPU board, we can make many PIC circuits.

 

(These are in Requests in right side, in Internet, in hardware magazines, in hardware books)

 

(8-bit PIC16F84A 1 Board Micro Computer CPU Board written by Toshiki Shirose)

 

(Reference Microchip PIC16F84A Datasheet)

 

*This 8-bit PIC16F84A 1 Board Micro Computer CPU Board Patent Holders

Takako Shirose

Toshiki Shirose

(To The Kingdom of Ryukyu Government : Please send this Patent to Japanese Government)

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 2 Wednesday April 2014 The Roman)

 

Circuit Draft -1-2 Interface Connecter Draft Plan

Circuit Draft -1-2 Interface Connecter Draft Plan

 

CPU - Bus to outside

 

PIC16F84A CPU Direct Bus Interface Connecter

 

30 Pin Flat Cable Connecter, 15 Pin x 2 Line, Pitch 2.54 mm, Notched type

 

 

Flat Cable Connecter Pin Number and CPU Bus connection (CPU : PIC16F84A)

 

Pin Number CPU Bus

 

1 RA0

2 RA1

3 RA2

4 RA3

5 RA4/T0CKL

6 N.C.

7 RB0/INT

8 RB1

9 RB2

10 RB3

 

11 RB4

12 RB5

13 RB6

14 RB7

15 MCLR(bar)

16 OSC1/CLKIN

17 OSC2/CLKOUT

18 N.C.

19 VSS

20 VDD

 

21 Reserved

22 Reserved

23 Reserved

24 Reserved

25 Reserved

26 Reserved

27 Reserved

28 Reserved

29 Reserved

30 Reserved

 

 

(N.C. No Connection)

 

(Reference Microchip PIC16F84A Datasheet)

 

*Computer Interface Bus by Flat Cable Connecter Patent Holders

Toshiki Shirose

Takako Shirose

Hiroko Shimabukuro

(To The Kingdom of Ryukyu Government : Please send this Patent to Japanese Government)

 

(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 2 Wednesday April 2014 The Roman)