Hello, everyone. Among other things, I collect HP calculators, as well as some of the related equipment they made back in the day. One of my favorites of the related items is the 200LX palmtop, which I've owned two of (one of which sports a shattered LCD panel, sadly). It's quite amazing that they managed to pack quite a bit of power into such a small package, being a (nearly) full DOS 5.0 PC which isn't much bigger than some of their graphing calculators.
Anyway, I recently picked up a HP OmniBook 300 "superportable" laptop at a local hamfest. Weighing in at under 3lbs (1.4kg), the OmniBook 300 would've been classified as a "netbook" had the term existed at the time. It has both Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0 in ROM, and features a 'mouse' which pops out from the right side of the case. Outwardly, it very much resembles a nearly-2x-scale version of the aforementioned 200LX, down to the relief lines on the top and the lid latch on the front. It came with the original box, power supply, several manuals, and a (likely dead) battery pack. Anyway, here are some pictures of it:
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And some comparison shots of it alongside my HP 200LX:
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Anyway, I recently picked up a HP OmniBook 300 "superportable" laptop at a local hamfest. Weighing in at under 3lbs (1.4kg), the OmniBook 300 would've been classified as a "netbook" had the term existed at the time. It has both Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0 in ROM, and features a 'mouse' which pops out from the right side of the case. Outwardly, it very much resembles a nearly-2x-scale version of the aforementioned 200LX, down to the relief lines on the top and the lid latch on the front. It came with the original box, power supply, several manuals, and a (likely dead) battery pack. Anyway, here are some pictures of it:
And some comparison shots of it alongside my HP 200LX:
