User`s guide
LETTERS:
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kinds
of
numbers
in sales to cause the
changes
we
users
want
and
speak
about
to become reality (improved fea-
tures, etc.). I for
one
am
enjoying
the
ride.
I
have
owned
and
used
the HP95LX,
HPI00LX, OB300,
Newton
120,
Sharp
Zaurus,
Casio
A-ll,
and
now
an
HP
320LX
Palmtop
Pc.
None
of
the
machines
prior
to
the
WindowsCE
devices. allowed
me
to leave
my
laptop
home
on
trips.
None
of them. This fea-
ture,
along
with
the
ability to connect
to
all
my
information
on
my
Win95
machines,
makes
the
HP
320LX
the
most fully
used
of all I've tried.
This is
probably
because
my
usage
requirements
fit
EXACTLY
what
Windows
CE is
intended
to
address:
the Windows95
or
NT
user
that
needs
compatibility
and
connectivity
with
his/her
information
on
the
desktop.
And
this
it
does
better
than
anything
else I've tried.
I can take
an
extended
business
trip
and
leave
my
laptop
at
the
office.
Completely.
I
wouldn't
trade
that
for
anything
else.
Everybody has different needs,
and
a
lot of
HP
200LX users
need
a complete,
stand-alone
device
that's
very
mobile.
It
does
this
very
well
indeed.
Those
users
should
keep
using
their 200LXs,
and
I
understand
HP
will
continue
to
sell
them
for this
segment
of
the
mar-
ket.
There
is
no
perfect
device
that
fits
everybody.
"One size fits all" does
not
apply
to
the
computer
handheld
mar-
ket.
I
have
had
a
keen
interest
in
the
handheld
market
for a
long
time.
My
first "handheld"?
An
Apple
lIc
with
a
$1,000 black
and
white
LCD screen that
allowed
the
lIc
to
be
"portable."
(As
long as
you
had
a 1,000-foot extension
cord for the power.)
200LX
James
Kendrick
70312.3513@compuserve.com
This is a letter
more
in
sorrow
than
in
anger.
It
appears
from
your
Publisher's
Message in
the
May
/ June issue of
The
HP
Palmtop
Paper
that
you
are going to
give
up
on
the
HP
200LX,
as
HP
(a
company
renowned
for
the
loyalty of
its
customers
rather
than
for listening
to
them)
is
going
to
stop
producing
them
when
demand
falls.
It
has
taken
me
two
years
to
half
exploit
the
capabilities
of
my
200LX,
and
I
do
not
anticipate replacing it (or
them
..
.!
have
three) for five years
or
so,
by
which
time
I shall
have
exhausted
its possibilities. I totally
depend
on
it,
which is
why
I
have
a
spare
for back-
ups.
The
Windows
CE
machine
is
impressive,
and
obviously is the
thing
of
the
future,
and
I
hope
HP
will sell
many
times
as
many
as
their
95
/
100
/
200
sales. But
what
about
me?
About
us, the
DOS/200
users?
About
our
sluggish, elderly machines?
If
HP
produced
an
upgraded
200LX
with
the
better screen,
we
would
have
no
decision to make. I
would
only
need
to
decide
whether
to
buy
my
second
one at
the
same
time as the first,
or
in a
month
or
so.
It
seems
absurd
that
I
have
to
buy
a
go-faster crystal
and
fit it myself,
when
I
would
have
preferred
to
buy
from
HP.
On
excavating
inside
my
200LX, I
find it has less bits in it
than
an
HP41
PalmTop Adaptor
External
Power
• Enables
Notebooks
and
Laptops
to
use devices
requiring
more
power,
i.e.
PCMCIA Hard Disks
30 THE
HP
PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER
1997
calculator. Surely it
wouldn't
be
hard
to redesign the board.
If
HP
markets a 200LX
with
a big-
ger screen
and
with
more
memory
(and
with
the
320LX
processor)
I will
buy
one,
and
so, I suspect, will
at
least half
of
the
existing
200LX
owners
-
and
this
will
be
in
addition
to
HP's
CE
sales.
The
ability
to
run
Windows
would
be a bonus,
but
isn't
essential.
If
HP
forces
me
to
buy
a CE
machine
in
a
few
years'
time,
they
must
remember
it
won't
necessarily
be
an
HP
one that I buy. With
an
upgrad-
ed
200LX
they have got me.
And
- a
parting
shot
-
why
do
they ignore the
UK
market?
No
adver-
tising.
No
press comments. Often,
HP
is
not
even mentioned in
palmtop
arti-
cles.
Jeff
Cragg
United
Kingdom
[HP
will continue
to
sell the
HP
200LX
and,
as
per
my
User
to
User
column,
we
will continue
to
support
HP
palmtops.-
Hal
Goldstein]
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