Tanrunomad Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Picked up this amazing little computer earlier this week. For those not familiar with the HP-LX series, they are essentially portable IBM-PCs complete with a miniature QWERTY keyboard. I made a review of it today. Hope you enjoy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I was a super user of the palmtop back in the day. When the HP95LX was introduced in 1991, it made the evening news. Four companies contributed to its creation: Intel provided the CPU engineering; Lotus provided the software; Microsoft provided MS-DOS; and HP did the enclosure and HP CALC. It was available in 512k and later 1MB (which I paid $600 for in 1992. In 1994, I paid $500 for the HP200LX 2MB. and several hundred $$ for a 20MB PCMCIA card. The machine is fantastic! And there are Windoze desktop applications for some of the apps on the machine. Also a separate CPACK software package emulates the machine on a desktop. In 2002 I used my palmtop to write, compile and transfer to the Vectrex my game program to test via a special RS232 Vectrex cart that Richard Hutchinson developed for me. To this day I still use the palmtop for Lotus123, custom databases that I developed and the HPCALC app on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 What's the easiest way to connect this to a modern PC? Some rarified connectivity kit or PCMCIA card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Friend of mine had one of those. I had the Zeos Palmtop computer, which was a bit bigger than the HP counterpart. Much more comfy keyboard. Even had a modem the size of a pack of cigarettes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanrunomad Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 What's the easiest way to connect this to a modern PC? Some rarified connectivity kit or PCMCIA card? There's a few different ways, but the "easiest" and the method I use is a CF card with an adapter that fits into the PCMCIA slot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 There's a few different ways, but the "easiest" and the method I use is a CF card with an adapter that fits into the PCMCIA slot. I recently bought a CF card USB adapter so I can move my data to my laptop. I have the HP apps running on my XP windows laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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