PDT 6800 Series Product Reference Guide

Introduction
Chapter 1
Getting Started
The PDT 6800 Series terminal is a hand-held, battery-powered, portable data collection
device. Data is entered from the terminal’s keyboard or through the integrated laser scanner.
As a remote terminal, it collects and stores data that is later uploaded to a host computer. The
PDT 6800 Series terminals include:
PDT 6800 - batch terminal (no radio)
PDT 6810 - Spectrum One ® network
PDT 6842 - 2 Mb Spectrum24 ® radio network
PDT 6845 - 2 Mb Spectrum24 ® radio (short range) network
PDT 6846 - 11 Mb Spectrum24 ® radio network
Since the procedures and descriptions in this guide are similar for all terminals listed above,
PDT 6800 Series terminals is used as a general term describing all terminals, unless otherwise
specified.
PDT 6800 Series terminals use Caldera’s DR DOS operating system that is compatible with
and extends Microsoft ® MS-DOS ® . Although the terminals are MS-DOS feature compatible,
they are not one hundred percent MS-DOS compatible. DR DOS provides access to a number
of commercially available programming tools. Additional programming tools are available
from Symbol for easier programming and access to special features.
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