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modelTsAndHandhelds

modelTsAndHandhelds

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Hi from the Pacific Northwest of the US. I've (re)discovered now-vintage computers through a bit of wish fulfillment: I so very much wanted a TRS-80 Model 100 back in 1983 when it was introduced but couldn't justify the $1K to buy it. Last year I stumbled on one on eBay and thus began my descent into collecting! :)

I now have three Model 100s (two donors, one now-working) with one all souped up with a full complement of memory, a REX#, and a Backpack. And an NEC PC-8201a (another of the systems like the Model 100 that is based on a Kyocera design).

...and now I've expanded my collection into handhelds / palmtops with Windows CE devices, DOS devices (like the HP 95lx), and (still to come) Handspring/Palm and Psion models, as well.

...and a vintage Gateway tower so I can use Windows 2000 (the Windows CE support won't run on newer Windows generations).

I'm enjoying the stories and help I see here on the forums and look forward to contributing over the coming year.

ps. The DEC-related subforums are fun, too. In college and grad school (1970s) I worked with and programmed PDP-8, PDP-11, and PDP-12 systems.
 
As I've mentioned in another of your topics: I've recently gotten a Hewlett Packard HP-95LX too. I also love the Psion's. Unfortunately the flexi-cable on 'm break. So I don't dear to use mine. I consider it to be a working museum piece. Pity. They are still the best devices ever made by man. That keyboard is suited to type minutes on meeting. Can't do that w/ a smart phone, and a laptop is too big and clunky.

Looking forward to read the posts on your experiences w/ the palmtops. :)
 
MeneerJansen said:
As I've mentioned in another of your topics: I've recently gotten a Hewlett Packard HP-95LX too. I also love the Psion's. Unfortunately the flexi-cable on 'm break. So I don't dear to use mine. I consider it to be a working museum piece. Pity. They are still the best devices ever made by man. That keyboard is suited to type minutes on meeting. Can't do that w/ a smart phone, and a laptop is too big and clunky.

Looking forward to read the posts on your experiences w/ the palmtops. :)
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I also have a couple of HP 95LX units. After some oddities when I first acquired them (showing both Main and Backup batteries being "low" when I had just replaced them), a few resets and all was well. What amazing devices they were; far (IMHO) beyond the other handhelds of the time...and HP was amazing in their documentation (the manuals included with an HP 95LX weigh nearly a kilo).
 
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