More odd things: HP150

From: Karl Maftoum <karlm_at_blitzen.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Wed Apr 14 18:28:00 1999

> Joe thinks that that is "batteries dead", and I can't remember. One
> other thing you may want to do, assuming this is the sort of 150 with
> a 9-inch (~23cm) screen, is to get a can of compressed air and blow the
> dust out of the touchscreen sensor holes -- part of the power-on
> self-test checks out the touchscreen (if present) and if some of the
> sensors don't see the IR light it will fail with some other code (F000?
> -- it's been a long time!). The computer will continue to work (maybe
> even the touchscreen will!) after this though.

I might do that actually.

> Yeah, there's also a 150 with a 12-inch screen that is tiltable. That
> is a 150C aka Touchscreen II and it has later ROMs that know about
> more devices. I don't really know how to tell the difference between
> a 150A, a 150B, and a 150A with the later B ROMs (yes an upgrade was
> available).

This is a 150A, 9-inch screen etc.

Cheers
Karl

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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering student at the University of Canberra, Australia

Email: k.maftoum_at_student.canberra.edu.au
Received on Wed Apr 14 1999 - 18:28:00 BST