Batboard

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

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.

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