The HP Palmtop Paper
Volume six / Issue one January/February
1997
Table of Contents
HP introduces a new HP 200LX with 4Mb of internal memory, lowers price
on the HP 200LX 2 Mb Palmtop PC, and bundles version of Puma's IntelliSync
Connectivity Software for Windows with 4Mb unit.
IntelliSync from Puma Technology lets you easily exchange and synchronize
information between your HP 200LX and Windows PC.
Hewlett-Packard's Kheng-Joo Khaw answers Hal Goldstein's questions on new
products and future directions. Khaw is General Manager of HP's Asia Pacific
Personal Computer Division. His division is responsible for HP's handheld
product line.
Will HP Palmtop users want to switch?
What started out as an e-mail message ended up as a wonderful review of
powerful software and hardware innovations made by Japanese users of the
HP Palmtops.
With a NIFTY-Serve Forum, a number of excellent Web sites, and an active
group of users, the HP Palmtop is well-supported in Japan.
The HP 100/200LX is a beautiful machine as is. However, some Japanese users
wanted to make a good thing better and began tinkering. The results were
as follows:
The iPeX image display program lets you add graphics to the Palmtop's built-in
Database, PhoneBook or Appointment Book.
Japanese users developed the software necessary to connect the Palmtop
to a LAN using Accton's Ethernet adapter cards.
New software driver for parallel port card speeds up data transfer.