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the connectors look bit like ECB (Europe Card Bus, invented by Kontron), so probably an 8080 system.

You say solder, but that looks like wire-wrap to me... common for both hand-made and automatically manufactured devices of certain eras, the tight wrap around a square post actually removes the need for solder.

Well done. Great video. I appreciate it.

WIth many contact cleaners, especially those that are un-aggressive enough to be sprayed in wholesale, the idea is that you ACTUATE the switches as much as you can before the cleaner evaporates. Rotary switches that can be turned infinitely can be actuated with a cordless screwdriver on the axle (don't go too fast - bearings can get damaged, and if anything jams, it will can be utterly disintegrated) if they prove a tough job and are a case of "fix it or it is already broken anyway". And yes, drenching is only for non-rinse cleaners that either are almost residue free (Kontakt 600) or that only, ONLY leave some lubricant (T6). Really strong stuff (Kontakt 60) is meant to be rinsed out - since that often means the switch has to be accessible or even disassembled, I rarely used it since if the contacts are/need to be made accessible you can also use glass paper, brass wirebrushes (optionally motorized) etc on them (which will be more effective and still do less damage than strong contact cleaners left in!).

Cool machine. I didnt even know HP made stuff like this.

Once upon a time, I had one of these!

Lovely!!!

Isn't there a colour scheme for windows 3.0 built in to invert the lcd?

My first PC in 1996 was a Aptiva Dx2 66mhz, this brings back some memories :)

I don't understand why HP used proprietary ports and connectors. And to find those cables is damn near impossible and if you do they are prohibitively expensive.

Sure, but can you run windows on an Atari Portfolio?

What if we touch that dial while cleaning the dial? Is it harmful?

Everybody out the water! Aptiva coming!

My 15 year old Cannon Powershot has vineger syndrome on the small led panel. Other than that the camera works fine. 😢

I just got my hands on a WWII German army watch and was hunting all around for a video that explains this. I am huge on milsurp, and this watch is easily one of my favorites to wear in my collection, though I didn't want to risk health problems for the sake of style. Mine was overhauled around 2001, it seemed, and it potentially has new hands, new crystal, and a new crown.. But the dial is original. I ordered a geiger counter just to be safe, a simple cheap one off Ebay, hopefully it's enough to do the job.

So cool to see old tech like this still be usable today. Is there any printer like this that would work with computers and PDAs ? Something like a IR or serial printer that you can carry around with batteries and using thermal paper is perfect for a portable setup using something old like a palm device for example

Thx for advice

Oh shit my first computer 1996!! Windows 95! Cyberia, pitfall, 3D pinball, MS Office 95+, Prodigy, CompuServ, MSN comic chat, IBM Information Superhighway, AOL. 28,600bps dial up modem later software upgrade got it to 33.6 😂😅

It won't run on a thinkpad and even less on a XP machine; the SRAM cards have a totally different bus from PCMCIA; they simply use the same connection but the protocol and internals are totally different. You need something like a 386 or up to a pentium machine to be able to read those directly, under W95; or need to get a very expensive USB SRAM reader, which goes for about 500 dollars or more usually. Whoever is able to make modern versions of those SRAM cards and sell them at a decent price will become rich overnight

woa. that's some gigantic mouse

What song is this? It sounds amazing.

I bought a HP 48G in 1990 and is such a great calculator for its time. My senior year of HS in 1990, the school had a Apple Macintosh SE/30 with Mac OS 6 and we used it for drafting class. A few years later I bought a Packard Bell computer with Win 3.11 and realized how Win 3 sucked compared to Mac OS 6 after using it. I think Microsoft tried to make it not look like Mac OS so as to not get sued. I upgraded my Packard Bell to Win 95, I thought it was finally usable when I did it. The 200LX upgraded to 95 would be awesome, but that it only has the 80186 would make that not possible.

@electrohoard - can you check the manual please and let me know how to change the cartridge?

Super cool! Would be great to see it with a “non-stretched” UI with more native resolutions. Also how it handles productivity apps like Word and Excel and Works. Also be cool to see it with the ELKS Embedded Linux OS

Just got my 200LX. Are you able to please share your software repository, config files and drivers? You have a github repository?

Hi Where to buy the quatech pcmcia card ?

Great video, brings back a lot of memories ;-) would it be possible for you to please share the .bat files and file tree of the files you copied to the CF card?

How can you run windows without a pcmcia card for memory tho

I don't know if still available but it's be interesting to test a freshly made watch vs one that's decades old to see how long the radium lasts.

Looks like it won’t be a picnic finding this card or one like it lol

is it full parallel or just printers

Born in 2006 I have seen them before never got to use one but I'd love to but I do own and use a trs-80 model 100 for my work

with today's tech you could put and entire computer in a card that size with TBs of SSD and GB of ram and a battery.

bruh, that is a netbook, not a palmtop, the 200lx is a palmtop, and I'm an HP48G user so I love the keyboard of the LX

Coolest thing I’ve ever seen

Thank you for the tour of great classic test equipment.

Cool video :-) Thanks for sharing

Nice video. I've always found these little palmtops to be pretty cool. Maybe I'll get one to mess around with one day.

Great video. I had one of these that I eventually sold off. The SRAM cards usually require a 16 bit PCMCIA bus slot. I got it working by using an older Compaq LTE Elite (486 class laptop) as a bridge computer. You still need the appropriate drivers. I forget if I made a video on this but will check.

What are the top three most radioactive watch, do you know? Perhaps under 500 EUR. I would love to get some. These watch you were measuring are extremely low radiation actually.

Can I use AT28C64 IC?

I always find it way more convenient on XT class machines to have multiple partitions no more than 100 megabytes just because of that free-sized calculation so dang slow.

I really love my HP 200LX. You should feature some software you think is useful in 2024. I also have a 256 meg card in mine. I don't even think I'd go bigger even if I could because it already takes a long enough time for it to calculate the free space when you type DIR.

Keep up the great work. This solution can be the cheaper and simpler solution than XT-IDE

i had a gameboy DMG and a TI-82 calculator and some sony portable DVD player that were all stored in a box in the basement all get vinegar syndrome at the same time, the portable DVD player got it the worst

Vintage watches are so beautiful, and they don't cost much. I feel really anxious about buying them because there are different opinions about it. All my watches were bought brand new during the last 5 years, but they lack the charm of vintage watches, which I don't buy just because of this radium issue and my anxiety. They say that most watches used radium in some way or another before the 70s. Your video is excellent, not only provides some peace of mind, but teaches how to use a Geiger Counter. Thanks, sir!

Floppy drives were extremely reliable before the Windows OS. The problem is identifying the different types ( 360, 720, 1.4 single side, double side, layers) and modern OS of Windows needing to write on old drives. The last time accessed MUST be written says the Win OS and it can destroy the old disk when it writes. In the olden DOS days , the last time the file was accessed was NOT constantly written. If you have any old floppy disks do not run them on Windows due to the last access write.

A minor but very important correction. That is NOT a USB programmer.... That early uldnprogram USB drives. That is an eeprom programmer, the hich connects via USB, but it programs eeproms rather than USB drives. There is a serious difference.

Cool video! I would like to see a speed benchmark on this. How does it compare to a hard drive?

Great! I designed a 3D printable bracket for these cards. Also, FreddyV wrote some drivers that dramatically increase the access speed for these devices!