Symbol Series 6800 Product Reference Manual page 14

Chapter 1
The Series 68XX System
Symbol Technologies' 68XX terminals are hand-held, battery-powered, portable data
collection devices. Data is entered from the 68XX's keyboard or through the integrated laser
scanner. As a remote terminal, the 68XX terminal collects and stores data that is later
uploaded to a host computer. The 6800 is a batch computer (no radio). Radio terminals
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include the 6810 for use in a Spectrum One network and the 6840 for the Spectrum24
radio network environment.
68XX terminals use Caldera's DR DOS™ operating system that is compatible with and
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extends Microsoft MS-DOS . Although 68XX 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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