ten year rule.

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Sat Jan 23 01:26:23 1999

>
> >Let us not forget the *amazing* diversity of form in the PC market in the
> >last 10 years! I have laptops, pen-based machines, hermetically sealed
> >touchscreen boxes, handhelds, luggables, even credit card PCs that are
> >distinctly classics and generally less than even 10 years olds.
>
> I nominate the HP 200LX as a definite classic. It's a handheld XT clone
> that has a very loyal following, and that is still being made (despite HP's
> support of Windows CE which *theoretically* is supposed to make
> handheld DOS machines obsolete...)
>
> - Joe

They're good little machines, except the LCD display looses vertical lines
over time as the wires through the hinge break. Not quite 10 years old though.
Does being designed around XT class hardware count?


-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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