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HP X25: Information Requested - Gerald H - 07-03-2017 10:18 AM

On auction in UK:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hewlett-Packard-HP-X25-Vintage-Pocket-Computer-Rarest-HP-around-/371991559715?hash=item569c6cbe23:g:udMAAOSwA3dYMG9I

Does anyone know what this is?


RE: HP X25: Information Requested - Massimo Gnerucci - 07-03-2017 10:31 AM

(07-03-2017 10:18 AM)Gerald H Wrote:  On auction in UK:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hewlett-Packard-HP-X25-Vintage-Pocket-Computer-Rarest-HP-around-/371991559715?hash=item569c6cbe23:g:udMAAOSwA3dYMG9I

Does anyone know what this is?

It should have been a linux PDA to be launched at the turn of the century. Aborted, just like the Xpander.


RE: HP X25: Information Requested - Paul Dale - 07-03-2017 11:15 AM

That's a blast from the past. I wrote the boot loader for this. HP's ACO contracted my employer at the time (Lineo) to provide an ethernet capable bootloader using a PCMCIA network card. I was the person picked to do it. The Linux port was done in Lineo's Taiwan office.

However, I'd never seen the case. I didn't know that it got that far along before the project was cancelled.

I've got a box packed away somewhere with the development prototype boards and other paraphernalia. I ought to sell it.


Pauli