Looking for a DOS program called pianoplayer

[Gordon JC Pearce]

William Layer wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:23:31 -0600
> Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
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>>William Layer wrote:
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>>>I had a brief affair with the Toshiba T1000 machines;
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>>This sounds like a perfect machine to do some oldskool DOS 8088 programming on 
>>while on trips...  Do the batteries in these kinds of things still work and/or 
>>can be reconditioned?  If not, are there any portable small 8088/8086 laptops 
>>(other than the HP palmtops, which still command a premium for some reason) 
>>that use conventional batteries?
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> The battery for the T1000 machines is a simple little pack, built from four (4) C-cell NiCads.. should be pretty easy to rebuild it. "Batteries Plus" quoted me $39 to make one, which is pretty fair, but a DIY-er could do it much cheaper than that. I've also seen one of these machines with an externally mounted 6v gel-cell battery; it was used at an Amateur Radio Field Day event.
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> IIRC, they ran for about 8 hrs on a charge; modern cells may perform better than this. 

My T1000ex runs for about two *weeks* on the four emergency positioning 
beacon (EPIRB) batteries in the soft case.  Each one is about the size 
of my fist.  This assumes the hard drive spins down after a day or so.

Gordon.