I owned an HP95LX for some time back when I was in high school and the=
Newtons were new. A friend of mine had an HP200LX (and a Newton 100, and=
later a 110, and 120, lucky punk). The tiny keyboard was a bit difficult=
to use but I successfully took notes on it. A fun little device, really,=
especially when I couldn't afford a Newton. It ran DOS 5, which was=
pretty nifty for something so little. If I recall correctly, it had a=
PCMCIA type II slot, too, as well as IR data transfer. You could have run=
one of those micro hard drives on it, given enough juice and drivers (if=
any were needed). For ease of use, though, it didn't match up to the=
MP100s my friends had. I was always bugging them to let me borrow the=
things. I didn't own my own MP130 until a few years later, and very=
recently, an UMP2000 which I am in the process of trading in for a brand=
new MP2100 through GEM.
The kicker, though? Those little HP computers are still expensive. On=
Ebay right now, someone wants $500 for their HP200LX. I sold my 95LX a=
few years ago for $75.=
(http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D1352720785)
Michael Mays
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On 5/15/2002 at 12:31 PM Ed Kummel wrote:
>Hmmm, around the time of the OMP, there really weren't
>that many Pen enabled PDAs. AT&T EOs were just coming
>into their own (and that's as far as they got) The HP
>95/100/200LXs were never pen devices, but they were
>still a solution for the mobile warrior. Barring the
>proprietary devices (amstrad and such) and, of course
>the GRiD...The field was very limited. Once Apple
>showed that it could be done, the field widened pretty
>quickly. Even to the point of having built-in phone
>services. The IBM/Mitsubishi Simon was one of the
>really cool integrated devices with pre-emptive letter
>typing (6 character keyboard kept changing letters
>based on what it felt would be the next letter) and
>the Nokia 9000i and 9000il. At the time, it was
>thought that integration was the killer-app! Devices
>either had phone modules you could connect to (AT&T
>EO) or had built-in communications (Envoy and Marco)
>or would attach to a cell phone (the little OZ that
>connected to a Startac cellphone) When the 2100
>arrived, the PDA market was already beginning to show
>signs of decay with the failure of so many
>high-visibility devices. It's not that the market
>could identify what was needed, but the public didn't
>even know that they needed something. And I hate to
>say this, but the majority of people walking the
>streets just don't have the patience or the know-how
>to use something as broad reaching as a Newton! So the
>market split. One side happy with the Fujitsu
>Stylistic and the other side happy with the Palm...The
>rest was fodder for the masses and those of us with
>long memories.
>.Ed
>web/gadget guru
>http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
>http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
>subdomain)
>--- John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > From: brian.tiplady_at_astrazeneca.com
><snip>
>> > Sony Magic Cap
>> > Sharp Zaurus
>> > Casio XL-7000 (Penright! OS)
>> > HP OmniG0
>> > Some larger pen tablets running WinPen or WinDOS
>> such as Fujitsu Stylistic
>>
>> I think we may be muddling PDAs and Pen computers
>> together, but here's a few
>> more:
>>
>> Casio B.O.S.S.
>> Poqet
>> Tandy/AST/Casio Zoomer (aka Z-PDA)- Geos-based
>> AT&T EO
>> Psion 3 series
>> HP 95/100LX
>> Amstrad pen-based PDA
>> various "electronic organizers"
><snip>
>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>Roll that beautiful bean footage!
>- Jay Bush (Bush's Baked Beans)
>
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