23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
6:09 p.m.
The HP LX series (95/100/200/700) palmtops were probably the most successful
80186-based computers. Several million of them were sold. Relevant to the
discussion of medical equipment, there was just a discussion on the HPLX
mailing list suggesting that the HP LX200 (MS-DOS 5.0) is still being sold
as part of some piece of medical equipment, although no one there could say
for certain. It was discontinued as a separate product in 1998.
Bob
Message: 13
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:36:42 -0800
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
Subject: RE: who built the first 8086/88 based puter?
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
On 3/23/2006 at 7:43 AM Cini, Richard wrote:
I don't know where in the overall timeline this is
but wasn't the Tandy
2000 based on the 80186? It was introduced in 11/83 and ran an OEM version
of
DOS 2.11.
Yes, and the 80186 was a marketing disaster for any company that tried to
turn it into a PC. The integrated peripherals, while generally better than
same facilities present on the PC aren't the least compatible. The wrong
thing in a world dominated by hardware-manipulating applications, such as
games, graphics utilities, backup programs, etc. I still have the Durango
80186 IO.SYS source for MS-DOS 1.25, as well as the OEM docs for 2.0.
All of this was a shame, because an 80186-based PC offers a pretty
substantial bang for the buck;
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