At 02:38 PM 9/9/02 +0000, Joe Rigdon wrote:
>At 07:03 PM 9/9/02 +0100, Philip wrote:
>
> >Wow - another person with a HP LX-series palmtop.
>
> Are you kidding! I have one that I use frequently and I expect a good
> number of the people on this list have one. I've tried a bunch of
> different palmtops including the HP color Jornada (runs Windows CE,
> yuck!) and I still prefer the 200LX.
Absolutely. I have two of them here, and still use them. The most interesting
use so far is in conjunction with a PCMCIA smartcard reader, but they're
very handy as a serially-connected computer terminal.
I disliked the 320LX and the later Jornadas, both because of Windows CE
cruft and
because software development suddenly got a lot more difficult than on the
200LX.
The 200LX would run (nearly any) straight DOS program and I wrote several
utilities using normal development tools, many of which made use of the
serial port
(the earlier 95LX had a different serial port configuration). Equivalent
development on
the Jornada series was expensive, time-consuming, and basically wasted effort.
It's off-topic, but I've got a 360LX (built 1997) here if anyone is
interested in a trade.
There is still a thriving 200LX "community" of users. See, for example,
http://www.palmtop.net/ and
http://www.palmtoppaper.com/
Cheers,
Dan
www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html
Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 15:57:29 BST