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The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - hp41cx - 08-20-2016 01:34 AM Golden Age RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - Guenter Schink - 08-20-2016 09:28 PM (08-20-2016 01:34 AM)hp41cx Wrote: Golden Age Not really a collector, I have 95LX 512 kB 95LX 1MB 200LX 1MB 200LX 2MB OMNIGO 100 Jornada 720 only the bare devices, thus not really qualifying as collectibles. Günter RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - rprosperi - 08-20-2016 11:54 PM (08-20-2016 09:28 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote: Not really a collector, I have Pretty good set of HP Palmtop machines, for a non-collector... RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - Csaba Tizedes - 08-21-2016 07:26 AM A 200LX with (1+4)MB RAM for trade? PICS here Csaba RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - Gerson W. Barbosa - 08-21-2016 08:24 PM (08-21-2016 07:26 AM)Csaba Tizedes Wrote: PICS here Not Found Error 404 RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - Csaba Tizedes - 08-21-2016 08:34 PM (08-21-2016 08:24 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote: Not Found Yes, I'm going to Test Topic and figured out how I can link here my files which are stored in Google Drive. It seems to me that is not enough if I make all the content available via link and I share the link here. Sorry for the Offtopic Csaba RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - Siegfried - 08-29-2016 07:49 PM (08-20-2016 01:34 AM)hp41cx Wrote: Golden Age AFAIK the Atari Portfolio was a bit ahead of the HP95LX so the former was the first portable MS-DOS machine (although the latter was much more useable). Just one 200LX here (and no Portfolio although I have most other Ataris ;-) RE: The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs - Adam Vaughn - 08-30-2016 03:11 AM My first HP palmtop was a 200LX. Like with their calculators, I had no idea they'd made them until I spotted one 'in the wild'. In this case, it was at an antique radio-related swap meet, of all places. I got it for $50, and was immediately intrigued with what it was capable of. I downloaded applications off of the 'net, copied them to a 32MB Sandisk flash card, loaded it into the 200LX, and I was off to the races. Unfortunately, it met its end after taking a tumble onto the floor, shattering the screen. I attempted to find a replacement through this forum and other means, ending up with a nice 660LX Windows CE palmtop in the process; it was nice, but not quite the same. Some time later, I did find another 200LX, again in an unexpected place, this time a ham radio flea market. Got this one for $20, and it even came with a manual. This past spring, coincidentally at another instance of the same 'hamfest' I found the 200LX at, I picked up a HP OmniBook 300 for $40. While bigger than the standard palmtop, it is still quite small by laptop standards, and seems like a 'grown-up' version of the 200LX, including looks-wise. It once again has DOS 5.0 in ROM, this time complemented by Windows 3.1! The little 'mouse' which pops out from the side of the case is a bit awkward, but works fairly well. Here are some side-by-side comparison shots of the two: |