HP: The incredible shrinking PC (and some of our favourite calculators)

[Dave Britten]

(04-15-2016 03:47 PM)Han Wrote:  Didn't those morph into the OMNI series, though? Or am I remembering wrong? What succeeded the 200LX?

There were a couple of OmniGo handhelds. They ran GeOS, and were sort of an early attempt at a touchscreen PDA (they had the Graffiti "handwriting" recognition system later used in the Pilot/Palm Pilot/Palm, and you could fold the screen completely around the bottom, much like a 28S). The screen contrast wasn't very good, and the included software didn't really stack up against what the 200LX already had. GeOS wasn't exactly a speed demon on there, either, and requires some weird hacks to get even limited DOS program compatibility. They're a neat novelty if you can get one cheap, but I've hardly ever used mine.

The handhelds kind of stagnated for a few years, until HP jumped on the Windows CE bandwagon with the 300LX, and later the Jornada line.