HP DOS computer selection advice sought

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jul 2 18:20:31 2004

> > So far from my looking around, the HP 110 seems very close to what I'd want.
> The small vertical height of the screen is a big plus, but, I really have to
> have 80x24. Plus the 110 seems to be stuck with 256k ram and only DOS 2.11.

The HP Portable Plus (110+) gets round some of those problems. It has an
80*24 LCD, and will take something like 800K+ of RAM (all in 6264's...).
But it is _not_ IBM compatible (the MS-DOS is a customised version, as
are many of the applciation programs), there's no HPIB port (there is an
HPIL port, and you can use an 82169 interface to hang HPIB devives off
that), and there's certainly no parallel port. Nor is there a hard disk
(although I think you can use some HP hard disk untis with it, if your
82159 has the later version firmware, there's a comment about this in the
back of the TechReF).

But I don't think it's really what you are looking for.

-tony
Received on Fri Jul 02 2004 - 18:20:31 BST

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