HP Palmtops

[Dave Britten]

(01-05-2015 12:13 PM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  

(01-04-2015 05:54 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  They're pretty much a 19BII on steroids.....

I look at the 200LX as more of a IBM XT on steroids. You can double the native speed by changing the clock crystal and expand the disk space to hundreds of MB's with a PCMCIA card. It has built-in monochrome and color video cards (but shown in black and white). A serial interface, an IR interface, runs DOS 5.0 for a couple of weeks on 2 AA cells .... plus all the built in "apps" only some of which you mention.

Yeah, when you dig under the hood, that's definitely what it really is. But from an included-software standpoint, it clearly owes a lot to the financial calculator line. Of course, my 19BII can't run ZZT, GW-BASIC, and Turbo C. Hell, you can run Windows 3.0 with a serial mouse on the 200 LX if you're bored/desperate enough.

(Note that the 200 LX has a tendency to be a little sluggish with CF cards larger than around 64 MB.)