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Zeos Pocket PC Palmtop for Sale in like new condition

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stephenv2

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You know....looking through, thinking, gauging...the pic of the invoice you have is from 1992. That would be one heck of an early 386, in palmtop form.
I think Zeos only made the one model. Now, Gateway DID market a few different HandBooks, but the Zeos was only one model.

What you have, is the standard Zeos Palmtop PC:
V30HL, 7.15 MHz (hi speed), 4.77 MHz (low speed), Landmark 2 speed 5MHz

More info here:
http://www.ericlindsay.com/palmtop/palmlist.htm#ptzeos

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Sharkonwheels said:
You know....looking through, thinking, gauging...the pic of the invoice you have is from 1992. That would be one heck of an early 386, in palmtop form.
I think Zeos only made the one model. Now, Gateway DID market a few different HandBooks, but the Zeos was only one model.

What you have, is the standard Zeos Palmtop PC:
V30HL, 7.15 MHz (hi speed), 4.77 MHz (low speed), Landmark 2 speed 5MHz

More info here:
http://www.ericlindsay.com/palmtop/palmlist.htm#ptzeos

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Yeah, I think that's correct. I remember Zeos selling these and don't recall other units. I lucked into the unit back in 1996 when I took at IT job and a manager there had bought it 1992, used it occasionally and taken great care of it, then put away in a drawer.

I kept, forgot I had it (fortunately stored it without batteries inside) and in upgrading my studio came across it on a shelf with my gear.

I think would like to get around a couple of hundred bucks out of it for the whole package as not only is it collectible but it's amazing quick for an old 386 due to everything running off ROM. Feels faster than some new Celeron notebooks.

If I can get a good offer here, I would prefer to sell it that way, if not I will probably put it on eBay on Sunday.
 
I agree with Sharkonwheels. It's not a 386.

However, zeos also made a 386 (386SX-20 IIRC) version in roughly the same form factor called the "contenda" It had a detachable floppy drive and was probably circa 1993-4, ran windows 3.1.

I used to work at zeos and remember those days fondly. All of the notebooks were essentially built elsewhere and we did very little actual assembly of them.
I don't actually recall doing any assembly to these palm machines.

I barely remember those palm-PCs, but I did have a contenda up until about a year ago.
 
Stephen, point is, it is NOT a 386, not even a 286.
It is basically a slightly-faster 8086/8088 like an IBM PC or PC/XT.

I saw a REAL 386 palmtop (386sx) go on fleaBay for about $180-190, and the Zeos units like yours usually fetch right around $80-120, I dunno if you'll get $200 for it. A palmtop WITH a 40MB hard disk (HP Kitty Hawk 1.4" hard disk) went for about $160 I think, so a bone-stock-no-storage Zeos I doubt will cross $120.

It's not fast enough, SUPER EXTREMELY picky on the PCMCIA cards it can use (and that ones it can use are small, rare, and SUPER expensive).

I know this, because I have one - they are nice, and I love the material the case is made of, keyboard is sweet, too.
I'd be willing to give you about $100 for it, but not more, simply because I could get a smaller+faster+more RAM+more compatible HP 200LX for not much more.

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Sharkonwheels said:
Stephen, point is, it is NOT a 386, not even a 286.
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My error - when I scanned the info in change from a V30 (80C86) to 386. Up dated.

Well, if it will only fetch $100 (though I've already had a couple of offers for $100), I might just hold on to it for another few years.
 
eBay's autobot yanked it due to violation of "keyword spamming policy"... I have a dispute it to get my listing fee back and will relist as soon as I hear from them. which was supposed to be yesterday. Not sure what threw it off though.
 
Sharkonwheels said:
Figures.

They'll yank your listing for using a word, but they leave up listings which want $10 to ship a 3.5" diskette.

Go figure!


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Yeah. But at least they refunded my fees and let me put it back up and it's now staying up. I had this happen once before and it was also something very bizarre.
 
As you're noticing, without the extremely hard to find proprietary serial and parallel cables, you'd be lucky to get half your starting bid. No way to get anything onto it!

I got one for about $60 a few weeks back with:
manual
ac adapter
carry case
serial cable
parallel cable
and the Zeos - WITH the port covers, and it arrived in absolutely flawless condition.

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This is what happens when one doesn't look at the picture closely enough. Some chap was advertising a Zeos Pocket PC with a $30 buy-it-now price, and I leapt on it in great haste and enthusiam. Well, it just arrived and sure enough, it *isn't* a Pocket PC. It's one of the later Contenda subnotebooks. It's a spiffy little machine, but it most assuredly is NOT what I was expecting. Caveat emptor kinda bit me on the hinderparts, looks like.

That said, I still have a burning desire to obtain a Pocket PC for my collection.
 
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