The Golden Age of HP Palmtop PCs

[hp41cx]

Golden Age

[Guenter Schink]

(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

[rprosperi]

(08-20-2016 09:28 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote:  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

Pretty good set of HP Palmtop machines, for a non-collector...

[Csaba Tizedes]

A 200LX with (1+4)MB RAM for trade?
PICS here


Csaba

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(08-21-2016 07:26 AM)Csaba Tizedes Wrote:  PICS here

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[Csaba Tizedes]

(08-21-2016 08:24 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  Not Found
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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

[Siegfried]

(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 ;-)

[Adam Vaughn]

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: