Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/30/20:07:03
I few years back I worked for a
company called Two Technologies
-- they have a DOS-based
handheld PC call "PC Lite."
It's designed for industrial
use and therefore pretty
pricey, but I remember it being
quite useful and very reliable.
Their website should be easy
enough to find if you're
interested.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:32:22 -0500 (EST) "Paul O. Bartlett"
<bartlett AT smart DOT net> writes:
> Some years ago I had a Zeos PocketPC. It was a small handheld
> computer, about 245mm wide, 115mm deep, and 25mm thick when closed.
> I
> doubt that it weighed much more than 150gm or so, if that much. It
> was
> called a "pocket PC" because it could fit in a large man's overcoat
> pocket. Nevertheless, one could touch type on the keyboard. It had
> an
> 80x25 CGA LCD display which was quite legible in decent light. Two
> 'AA' cells would power it for several hours of editing use, say, if
> one
> wasn't using the AC adapter. It had serial and parallel ports.
> The
> interesting thing is that it had MS-DOS 5 in ROM, together with a
> usable personal organizer application. And, of course, it would
> run
> DOS applications as long as they did not require color and/or VGA
> as
> such. Sadly, one time I scrambled one of the memory cards for it.
>
> Does anyone know of any similar-sounding DOS-based hand-held
> computers available? These days it seems like the choice is
> between
> Palm-type organizers (too small) and Windows-based laptops (too
> big).
>
> --
> Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net
> ..........................................................
> Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
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>
>
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