Subject: HP Palmtop

From: Carlos McEvilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 May 1992 13:55:46 EST

In response to Stephen G. Simpson's query:

There was a photo of the new Hewlett-Packard Chinese computer in the
China Post on Thursday, April 30, 1992.  The picture is fuzzy and shows
a hand holding the small fold-open machine, which looks more like a
palmtop organizer than a computer.  There are ten function keys visible
and a cramped-looking qwerty keyboard with the usual HP-style raised keys.
There is a numeric keypad on the right, so there is not much room for the
full keyboard on the left.  The querty keys have bopomofo symbols and
possibly some others (probably changjie).  The model number on the top
looks like 85LX, but again, the picture is not clear.  On the right
above the screen it says: 1MB RAM.

The screen looks about 8 characters high and 30 characters (15 Chinese
characters) wide, and displays some Chinese text:
HP [Hui2pu4 ke1ji4 gong1si1]
[jie2he2]
[Yi3tian1 zhong1wen2 xi1tong3 (tui1)chu1]
[.blurred..zhong1wen2 zhang3shang4 .. blurred.. dian4nao3]
[..blurred..]

The caption reads:

World's smallest Chinese computer
=================================

Hewlett-Packard Taiwan yesterday unveiled a hand-held Chinese computer
measuring only 16 cm in length and 8.46 cm in width.  Hewlett-Packard
claims its second generation of hand-held computers has doubled its
random access memory from 512 kilobytes to 1 megabyte.