Old HP Palmtop for RSS?

EngineerZ · Post by **EngineerZ** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 5:09 pm

My trusty '386-16 laptop that I used for RSS finally bit the dust after several months of emitting strange noises. I'm now looking to buy a replacement...

I was wondering if anyone has used any of the old HP DOS-based palmtops to run RSS... I'm talking about the 95LX, 100LX, 200LX, etc. variety, not the new WinCE/Pocket PC stuff out today. These things are early '90s vintage and run something like DOS 3.x in ROM. They have a serial port and would be a nifty little box for programming. I suspect that RSS does not run on these boxes, but I thought I'd check with the folks here to see if anyone had some experience with them. I don't want to hook one of my radios to one of these things and turn it into a brick. If folks have had success with these boxes, I may look into getting one... Otherwise I'll look to find another '386 laptop...

I currently program Maxtracs, Maratracs, Sabers and I've been thinking about adding an HT600 to my collection.

Thanks for any comments...

EngineerZ

Blitzbug2u · Post by **Blitzbug2u** » Thu Oct 25, 2001 4:10 pm

The noises it was making were probably the hard drive--Scrounge up another(ads in Computer Shopper) Reload software from your back-ups, and keep going. Blitz.

EngineerZ · Post by **EngineerZ** » Thu Oct 25, 2001 8:33 pm

Unfortunately it was not the hard drive... The noises were high pitched whines that sounded like they were coming from sort of oscillator... Really weird...Never heard that from a PC before. Now the OS is dead (Hard drive is spinning fine and backlight on the screen, but that's it... Not even a BIOS prompt.

EngineerZ