HP200LX (was Re: Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't)

[Ray Arachelian]

Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>
> Yes, a very impressive little machine. I dropped mine a few times and
> all that happened was ejecting the batteries and PCMCIA card. Pop both
> back in and it works again. Very robust. And the battery life ... 
>   

Yeah, I actually got tired of swapping batteries and used those Lithium
AA's meant for cameras.  They last nearly forever and they're much lighter.
> BTW: You can use a CF-to-PCMCIA-adapter and a CF card in it. It ran mine
> with a 256 MB CF-card, _plenty_ of storage.
>   
True, if I were to use it again as a PDA, I'd go that route.

> Made a great mobile terminal as well. Unfortunately, on mine the display
> went unusable a year or so ago (looks like the display ribbon cable 
> lost it). So it is now sitting on the shelf.
Sorry to hear.  Maybe you can find an 100LX or another dead 200LX and
swap parts until you have a working machine.

I stopped using mine as a PDA after I got a Newton 2100.  I got a 2nd
one for the wife, but she dropped hers and the touch pad no longer works
on that one.  But eventually stopped using the Newt as well once I
started carrying a notebook machine with me to work.

> Yes, it was my trustu companion for years, I even wrote some code for it
> (to use it as a big clock when giving talks and to read books on it).
>   
Nice. I vaguely remember there was some shareware that let you read text
vertically, and some nice sets of fonts for it too.

> Oh, yes, there must be some Solaris 7 & 8 original packages around as
> well ... somewhere in my piles-of-wonderful-stuff ;-)
>   

I've got bunches of Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 2.6 somewhere... but I don't
think any of them are sealed. :-)  I installed'em all at various times.