HP360LX palmtop PC, found one in my junkdrawer...

blueroomelectronics

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #1

I was digging through an old parts drawer and found an old complete HP360LX palmtop computer I remember buying it from Tiger for cheap. It has a CF and PCMCIA slot, should support some network cards and it has a serial port on the docking bay.
As these units are somewhat cheap if you can find them, they might be handy for a robot or automation controller (WiFi, RS232)
I've found very little info on these old beasts via Google, but something old is new again
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360LX runs with 2x AA (and can charge NiMH/NiCD)

 

Marks256

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #2

Does it have any form of sound?

 

blueroomelectronics

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #3

Squeek, that's about it. It's only a 60MHz CPU. But they make color versions and the very old DOS version 200LX
http://www.rundel.net/palmtop/datasheets/hp_360lx.htm
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The 7.91MHz 80186 based 200LX with MSDOS
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picbits

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #4

I remember trying to source one of the first HP Journadas in the country for the boss. He wasn't going to take "not available yet" as an excuse.

 

blueroomelectronics

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #5

Marks256 you like old silicon so I'm sure you'd like one of these. The Atari Portfolio
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John Conner used one to hack an ATM in Terminator 2

 

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Marks256

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #6

hey, that Atari is pretty geeky....

 

blueroomelectronics

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #7

Marks256 said:

hey, that Atari is pretty geeky....

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Maybe one is hiding in your piles of old computers.

 

Marks256

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #8

blueroomelectronics said:

Maybe one is hiding in your piles of old computers.

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I wish!

Here is one on ebay.
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Marks256

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #9

Hey! Check this out! It looks like this ram/rom evaluation board could make the little Atari Portfolio interfaceable!

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blueroomelectronics

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #10

$50, not bad. A friend of mine had one. If DOS is your thing then lots of fun. No backlight on the Atari.

Plenty of 200LX computers on eBay too.

 

Marks256

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #11

I like DOS. It is the one thing M$ did right. Then again, that is all i had when i first started with computers... If i remember correctly, my only OS i had was the windows 98 boot floppy!

 

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picbits

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #12

The old Tandy Model 100 used to rock. We used them for stocktaking using a program written by one of the employees.

When I was a kid I used to live for my visits to Tandy (Radioshack owned at the time) and when I got older worked for them for a number of years.

It was sad when they finally ceased trading.

 

blueroomelectronics

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• Jan 27, 2008

• #13

I've got a Tandy Model 100 too, it's way too geeky to use in public.