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From: Carlos McEvilly <MOEG013%TWNMOE10.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      HP Palmtop
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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.

From CCNET-L@uga.cc.uga.edu Sat May  2 15:54:02 1992
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From: H u a n g Yolin <yih@BRL.MIL>
Subject:      Re:  HP Palmtop
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in addition, I have found that the ASCII version of the palmtop is HP
95LX.  From the manual (no, not mine), it says:
--------------------------------------------
Hardware features:
...
o A large, 40x16 display
o A plug-in card slot, which enables you to use plug-in cards just like
you would floppy disks on your PC.
o An Infrared (I/R) port for wireless HP 95LX to HP 95LX communications.
o A serial port for HP 95LX communications to a PC, a printer, or other
serial devices.
o A typewriter keyboard layout with a "sticky" shift key - you don't need
to hold down shift while you press another key; you press it once to
activate it and then press the other key.  Shifted key definitions are
shown in yellow on the keyboard.
o A separate numeric keypad ...etc.
---------------------------------------------
It runs MSDOS, and comes with Lotus-123, Appointment Book, Phone Book,
Memo Editor, Filer, Financial calculator, Datacomm, ..., shipped with
256K RAM (addtional RAM cards can be added up to 2 Mb).  quite impressive
with a size about a paperback.

Since it runs MSDOS, I would think regular MSDOS Chinese programs can be
customized to run on this little one.  The only problem is the 40x16
screen, I think.

The list price is around $500.

There are already commercial softwares (in ROM-card) for 95LX.  One is
DERIVE, a symbolic and numeric solver.  retail: $289.

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from UNIX REVIEW, June 1990
" Asian-language keyboard support for the HP 700/X family
  of X Windows graphics terminals has been announced by
  Hewlett-Packard Co. Japanese (Kanji and Katakana), CHinese
  (traditional and simplified), and Korean (Hangul) keyboards
  compose the series. The terminals handle the mapping of
  8-bit keyboard input to 16-bit Asian-character output by
  using the HP Native Language I/O program. Prices for the
  HP 700/X start at $2995. "

" HP, Palo Alto, CA, 1-800-752-0900 "

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Subject:      palmtop Chinese computer ?
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Today CNN Headline News reported that Hewlett-Packard's stock has gone
up because of favorable reaction to a new product, a palm-top computer
which is Chinese-capable.  Does anybody know any more information or
technical specs on this thing?  Also, where is it being sold, for how
much, and how many have been sold?

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Another helpful reply to Carlos McEvilly's query.
        --Dorothy Day
----------------------------------------------------

Date:         Wed, 31 Jul 1991 15:39:44 EDT
From:         LUAKT@NUSDISCS.BITNET
Subject:      Re: seeking info. on Chinese computer systems

 Hi!

 In Singapore, we are using the following systems:

 1. LXPC Han-card - this card has 1MB on board and is compatible
 to most software, ie Wordstar, dBASE 3+, Lotus, C, Prolog etc.
 It also provides its own desktop typesetting software DTP.

 2. Synetone System - this is a software system. But it also
 provides a Han-card for storing Chinse fonts. We can use PE
 or Wordstar on this system.

 3. HDCCDOS - like above.

 4. PJY/PYS system. A quite intelligent Pinyin input system. The system
 automatically memorise the characters selected by the users. It also
 segment a sentence automatical and translate the pinyin codes to
 characters.

 5. Brushwriter system - Chinese word processor developed locally.

 I do not know which one is most popular here. Of course, there are
 also small number of Chines wp systems using IBM 5550, Apple talk (Mac),
 and even the CCDOS/CCBIOS.

 Hope these information are useful.


> lua kim teng (LUAKT@NUSDISCS.BITNET)
> National University of Singapore
> Department of Information Systems and Computer Science

