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In this video, I will show you how to connect a Citizen PN60 portable printer and a serial mouse to an HP 200LX Palmtop computer. The HP 200LX is a classic portable computer released in 1994 and is famous for its DOS operating system and built-in applications. The Citizen PN60 is a compact printer that can produce high-quality prints on the go.
We will go through the steps required to connect the printer and the mouse to the HP 200LX, which involves using the serial ports on the Palmtop. We will show you how to configure the printer and mouse settings on the HP 200LX, and how to install the necessary drivers for the printer.
Once we have everything set up, we will demonstrate how to print a document from the HP 200LX using the Citizen PN60 printer, as well as how to use the serial mouse to navigate around the computer, running Windows 3.0.
Whether you're a fan of vintage technology or simply looking for a way to use your old devices, this video is a must-watch for anyone interested in connecting a portable printer and mouse to the HP 200LX Palmtop. Join us on this trip down memory lane as we explore the world of retro computing!

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@keep9tutan 9 месяцев назад

If my friend who used an HP200LX had known how to do this 20 years ago, he would have been madly in love with it.

@electrohoard 9 месяцев назад

Im sure he would! I am still madly in love with it 30 years later hahahaha!

@luis-ranma Год назад

Amazing video! I've never seen a device like this running Windows 3.0, it's so cool!

@electrohoard Год назад

Thanks for watching and for supporting my channel :D

@luis-ranma Год назад

@@electrohoard You're welcome! nice channel!!😊

@electrohoard Год назад

@@luis-ranma 😃🤗

@tapafon_red Год назад

Underrated video. I wanted to see windows running on this thing, and I found your video about that!

@electrohoard Год назад

Thanks! You gave me an idea: make a video about all the pocket size Windows 3.0 capable palmtops that I have! My plan is not to focus only on retro computers on this channel, but retro things mechanical and electronics, so I’ll probably post some videos about other subjects before that , but I’ll sure make a video about windows on palmtops in the following weeks.

@CATech1138 Год назад

agreed...liked, subscribed and commented

@electrohoard Год назад

@@CATech1138 Thank you so much!

@LemSportsinterviews Год назад

incredibly interested in these early pocket-sized, "full-featured" computers. they've been an obsession of mine for decades now. love this! great content

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you very much! Im also obsessed with these and have a few others I plan to make a video about!

@GamingHelp Год назад

Same. I eventually bought a Libretto and massaged FreeBSD 4.3 on it. When I'd use it in public, it was a literal "chick magnet". Every time I'd be using it, people would come up to me to ask what it is. The reply was always the same. "A laptop? No way! It's so tiny!".

@electrohoard Год назад

@@GamingHelp its incredible how most of this tech never reached the general public and today seem like a brand new thing for most people.

@uldamax Год назад

I'm definitely too young to even know what windows ce is, born in 2000, but I just find this tech so appealing. I love the look, simplicity, and the functionality they could pack in a passport sized pc in the 1990s. Although I think I would go crazy with that keyboard if I had to rely on it. Thanks for showing!

@electrohoard Год назад

Hey, I agree with you! Its amazing that you could have a complete PC in your pocket in the early 90s. The keyboard is obviously not even close to a normal sized one, but believe it or not, for what it is, its surprisingly good! I do have another pocket sized computer with a better keyboard that I plan on making a video in the coming weeks. Thank you so much for your comment!

@stephensalex Год назад

As an older millennial (born in the late 80s), I find it so amazing to see the same curiosity, passion, and interest from the next generation of hardware/software enthusiasts. Seeing continued interest in "the hobby" is reassuring because it proves that vintage computing isn't going away when my generation does. Thank you and keep on rockin'!

@electrohoard Год назад

@@stephensalex retro computing is not going away! Quite the opposite, I do believe its so ‘intriguing’ for the new generation that males them wanna learn more where it all started. Thank you for the kind comments.

@stephensalex Год назад

@@electrohoard Totally agreed! Thank you for being a part of our amazing community, I love your work!

@electrohoard Год назад

@@stephensalex Thank you for supoorting us content creators!

@aavalos163 10 месяцев назад

Amazing. I had this machine back in the '90s but I never tried Windows in it.

@electrohoard 9 месяцев назад

Running Windows on it somehow makes it feel much cooler, I guess because ir brings back good old memories from back then.

@pvhq Год назад

Underrated video. I was born in the 2000s so I only know a little about old computers like this, thank u so much, subscribed!

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you so much for watching and for the kind comments :)

@rsc9520 Год назад

Great video!!! Thank You for this detailed review.

@electrohoard Год назад

Im glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

@kiwiscripter Год назад

Honestly I didnt even know palmtops were even a thing until I watched this video but now i want one so bad

@electrohoard Год назад

Haha I know how you feel. I already knew about them cause I did manage to buy a 200LX one year after it was launched, and year after year I just got more and more interested in them. I pretty much had most of the palmtops from HP, but the 200LX is my favorite.

@rsc9520 Год назад

Me too!

@electrohoard Год назад

@@rsc9520 now you know and I’ll post more neat DOS palmtops in the future, along with other interesting stuff.

@techc760 Год назад

I really like seeing these older devices being used today. Brings me back to the days when I was just learning about computers. Back then, I couldn't afford one of those mini pocket pdas or computers...but now...I hope to be able to bring one I got back to life soon.

@electrohoard Год назад

Which onde did you get? These are wonderful little devices to play with.

@techc760 Год назад

@@electrohoard A client gave me their HP IPAQ Pocket PC. It runs Windows Mobile. I just need to get a battery for it

@electrohoard Год назад

@@techc760 I have a few iPaqs too. They are great and I may showcase one in a video in the future…

@techc760 Год назад

@@electrohoard That would be great!!!I really like them...as well as the Psion series

@electrohoard Год назад

@@techc760 I dont have any Psion (yet) haha.

@HwanSangHyang Год назад

This is an item that was used in Korea once (Letters written avove keyboard is Korean) I didn't even know this existed. It's interesting even if everything (software,window, etc...) is English

@electrohoard Год назад

Hey you noticed that! I didnt mention in the video, but yes, this is not the English version, but it did came with English ROM (luckily, cause I cant reas Korean!). I believe its quite unusual since I havent seen many of these…

@LotoTheHero 4 месяца назад

Nice video. I've always found these little palmtops to be pretty cool. Maybe I'll get one to mess around with one day.

@electrohoard 4 месяца назад

Thank you for watching! Yes, these little devices are very cool considering the size and what they can do :)

@NathanaNobody Год назад

your videos are awesome

@electrohoard Год назад

Its such a joy to get this kind of feedback! Thank you!

@nivitoachumi2991 Год назад

Your 178th subscribeer here, don't forget us when you reach millions, which im sure you will.

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you my 178th subscriber! Haha I promise I wont, but thats a dream too far away. What I most want is to feel somehow useful by sharing my knowledge and stuff I’ve been hoarding for many years. If you have any suggestion feel always free to post, and thank you once again!

@WiltonSilveira 9 месяцев назад

It's amazing!

@electrohoard 9 месяцев назад

Thank you Wilton for watching :D

@The-i-Shakk Год назад

This is legendary.

@electrohoard Год назад

Im glad you enjoyed!! Thanks for watching.

@SolarLantern424 Год назад

It's great you made that serial connector with the DB9 because it opens the possibility of all kinds of serial devices. Maybe even something like an eprom programmer or something. Perhaps you could use it to add wi-fi so it can have internet like they do on the Commodore 64 with the little ESP thing.

@electrohoard Год назад

I think it is possible. Originally the connector I took from the HDD was much bigger so I cut it to make several smaller ones that fit the 200LX. I have spares to try to make other serial devices work.

@flaksoft8003 Год назад

Once you have a serial port on a machine like that, it beeing a real PC with DOS and windows, yes you could use text based apps, or basic COM networking, tranfering files or use it as a terminal in an old server room How badass is that ? Plus, PCMCIA ethernet was a thing.

@electrohoard Год назад

@@flaksoft8003 yeah, true! I havent tried any of my pcmcia ethernet cards with it yet, but they should work just fine.

@TheFinalRevelation1 Год назад

Better than writing it with your own hand

@electrohoard Год назад

Certainly! And much more fun.

@skanderbenabdelkrim6332 Год назад

Legendary!

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you so much!

@ar_l00n1x 2 месяца назад

Great video, brings back a lot of memories ;-) would it be possible for you to please share the .bat files and file tree of the files you copied to the CF card?

@Hchris101 4 месяца назад

Coolest thing I’ve ever seen

@electrohoard 4 месяца назад

Thank you :) Glad you liked it!

@worldfreedom2000 Месяц назад

I bought a HP 48G in 1990 and is such a great calculator for its time. My senior year of HS in 1990, the school had a Apple Macintosh SE/30 with Mac OS 6 and we used it for drafting class. A few years later I bought a Packard Bell computer with Win 3.11 and realized how Win 3 sucked compared to Mac OS 6 after using it. I think Microsoft tried to make it not look like Mac OS so as to not get sued. I upgraded my Packard Bell to Win 95, I thought it was finally usable when I did it. The 200LX upgraded to 95 would be awesome, but that it only has the 80186 would make that not possible.

@SolarLantern424 Год назад

I think you might be able to make a kind of expander for the serial devices. I mean the mouse is an input device and in theory the printer is an output device although there may be some handshaking (Tx/Rx) for the printer but maybe they could share the serial port if you had a couple of db9's and one of your special home made connectors. After all the mouse never gets any input. Not sure if it would work but if it did then they could both be connected at the same time.

@electrohoard Год назад

Thats something I am willing to try and even did some research online about it! Thanks for the suggestion, thats definitely on my to-do list!

@Unan1mouz Год назад

Wow that is so cool that an old Palmptop PC can even print directly to a printer... I was obsessed with Palmtop PCs and PDAs back in the days when I was a kid/teen. Sad I never got to own one :( Though I've owned many different PDAs with different OSes. Haha

@electrohoard Год назад

I guess we have a lot in common! I was also obsessed with Palmtops, Palm size PCs and PDAs when I was a teen, and luckly I managed to own a few that I still have and plan to show here on the channel along with other stuff! Thanks for watching!

@canalRetro269 Год назад

I was also obsessed with Palmtops too. But now with make a computer great/nice with TTGO VGA32....

@electrohoard Год назад

@@canalRetro269 I’ll have to google about that TTGO VGA32zzz

@canalRetro269 Год назад

@@electrohoard A board with a Esp32 microcontroler and you can make retro computers with that. (e eu estou fazendo um computador para o fim do mundo com ela (modular, baixo consumo de energia, baixo custo por unidade e pode funcionar mesmo sem parte dos acessórios disponíveis com o sistema q estou criando)).

@electrohoard Год назад

@@canalRetro269 thats really interesting. I had never heard of it before and I’ll probably get one to play with it! Obrigado pelas informações!

@EirikrTinkerTries 2 месяца назад

Super cool! Would be great to see it with a “non-stretched” UI with more native resolutions. Also how it handles productivity apps like Word and Excel and Works. Also be cool to see it with the ELKS Embedded Linux OS

@GamingHelp Год назад

What I wouldn't give to find a VGA monochrome display like these older LCD's. I kind of miss those things.

@electrohoard Год назад

Yeah, these are the real deal in terms of vintage experience!

@GamingHelp Год назад

I just want the panel for one of my projects! hehe! Which reminds me, I should stuff some batteries into my PC-3 and sharp pocket computers one of these days and play around. Both of them still work and I bought them in the 80's. :) Best of luck trying to use a modern lithium ion proprietary battery pack device in 40 years! :P

@virajdhananjayadinuviraj 10 месяцев назад

Great video bro. Do you know how to change the system language on 200 lx ?

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

You would have to replace the system board since that is coded in ROM…

@virajdhananjayadinuviraj 7 месяцев назад

@@electrohoard Thank you so much 👍

@electrohoard 7 месяцев назад

@@virajdhananjayadinuviraj glad to help :)

@Pasi123 Год назад

I like how those HP Palmtop PCs look like HP OmniBooks but tiny

@electrohoard Год назад

Yes, they do bring back great memories from that HP era!

@JohnnyZag Год назад

Никогда не думал, что Windows можно запускать на подобного класса компьютерах. Супер! Я тот чувак, который просил тебя поставить камеру на штатив :) спасибо! Теперь намного приятнее смотреть твои очень интересные и содержательные видео. Cheers from Georgia.

@electrohoard Год назад

Здравствуй, друг! Я последовал твоему совету и купил себе штатив, большое спасибо за совет и за просмотр моих видео!

@JohnnyZag Год назад

@@electrohoard ❤️

@Chiavaccio Год назад

Awesome😮😮👏👏👏👍

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you!!

@Chiavaccio Год назад

@@electrohoard 👍👍👏👏🥇🥇🥇👋

@FinalBossOfCanada Год назад

As someone who has a windows XP machine since 2006(since I was 3) it’s been a big part of my life, even helping with school work, sadly I haven’t been able to afford a IDE to SATA ADAPTER, I had to sadly watch it die yesterday but I will always remember it, until I can afford IDE to SATA ADAPTER, I have to use a cheap laptop for the time being…

@LeftoverBeefcake Год назад

Does the CF card need to be formatted as FAT16 to work in this computer? I have a 64 megabyte card I use with my Pocket PC (HP Jornada 680), and when I put it in the 200LX using the PCMCIA adapter it's not being recognized. My 200LX came with a 5 meg PCMCIA card and that shows up just fine, so I know it's not the PCMCIA port... very strange.

@electrohoard Год назад

Yes, its needs FAT16. The HP itself can partition and format the card in DOS.

@LeftoverBeefcake Год назад

@@electrohoard Aha! That's gotta be what I was doing wrong. Thank you for your help and for this video, I can't wait to finally get some software on this little beauty and try out some of the things you've shown. :)

@electrohoard Год назад

@@LeftoverBeefcake let me know if you need any extra help. Command for partioning is fdisk100 and for formating is format.

@at7388 Год назад

Missing the times when mouse and computers had the same size.

@electrohoard Год назад

Hahahahaha good one! LOL

@electrohoard Год назад

@@POS-Website-User true!

@chaoticsystem2211 23 дня назад

woa. that's some gigantic mouse

@ralphshtripaider35 Год назад

Está exelente!!! muito bom! mereces os like e mereces a subscrição!

@electrohoard Год назад

Muito obrigado Ralph! Agradeço muito pelos elogios e seja muito bem vindo!

@arlandi Год назад

can it be upgraded to Windows 3.1? I had this machine and a Jornada, unfortunately they are both dead a long time ago...

@electrohoard Год назад

Unfortunately it wont run Windows 3.1 because it needs real mode to run Windows, so the latest version it can run is 3.0. Its still good enough for retrocomputing stuff and since its so portable, you can take it everywhere, even the whole setup with mouse and printer. I also have a Jornada 720 that I had to replaced the polarizer due to Vinegar Syndrome (I made a video about this), but its not as interesting because it runs Windows CE and to do any DOS playing you have to use a cumbersome emulator on it.

@Oberkaptain 8 месяцев назад

For your knowledge that is a JST XH 2.54mm spacing header.

@electrohoard 8 месяцев назад

Great information, thanks for sharing!

@L15U5 Год назад

its cute!

@electrohoard Год назад

Haha yes it is! A cute little XT machine that runs 20 days on two AA batteries :)

@dl8cy Год назад

I know i own an original serial cable for my 200LX ... but i do not know where it is at the moment 😞

@electrohoard Год назад

These are getting pretty rare and pricey…

@dl8cy Год назад

@@electrohoard Even back in the days it was not cheap. I used my 200LX with a Nokia PCMCIA GSM connectivity card together with my Nokia 2130 phone. In the late 90s gsm and edge service started at the Berlin Subway/Underground ... Everybody In the subway cars reading newspaper and me reading email and USENET on my HP 200LX :-)

@sjococo Год назад

Build your own with a dual line connector with 2 mm pitch. Mini EIDE connectors for laptops can be used for that. An EIDE to mini EIDE adapter has the right connector to use if you cannot find one running loose somewhere

@smithlau Год назад

How to automatically flip the screen color after entering Windows? I can only wait for Windows to start and press the keyboard manually

@electrohoard Год назад

There are a few applications on the online 200LX software repository that can do this. I will make a step by step video about this, as I didnt go into much detail on this video to keep it from getting too long and boring. Basically I just used the app and created a batch file that will ‘prepare’ everything before windows starts.

@smithlau Год назад

@@electrohoard And I saw that there is a Windows icon in your HP UI is very cool, how did you make it?

@electrohoard Год назад

@@smithlau The HP UI allows for the creation of custom shortcuts. What I did was creat a batch file that automagically increases free ram, inverts screen colors and calls for win.com . I plan on releasing a new video to satisfy most of the curiosity around the HP software and I will include in the video the ways to create custom shortcuts, is that something you would be interested?

@smithlau Год назад

@@electrohoard Yes, I'm very interested and a lot of people should be, because no one has made a video yet.

@jozsiolah1435 Год назад

Cf card in the pcmcia port is much faster than an old laptop’s hdd, I tried it in a 386 thinkpad. 16 gb card is better, Doom runs on 25 mhz with its smallest screen resolution. It meeds ezdrive to make it work, or else it is just 32 mb. 256 mb card doesn’t need driver, but it won’t affect the overall speed.

@electrohoard Год назад

Thats good to know. I have a few new and vintage thinkpads but never compared PCMCIA speeds os used ezdrive. I will certainly try it!

@flaksoft8003 Год назад

this was HP's attempt to have a text-based RPG steam deck. But no kidding this really is a very small PC and powefull enough to run win 3 Again a very cool machine i would have love to have as a kid Do some paint, word and Qbasic maybe some DOS games, use the serial to do plenty of stuff like network to a bigger PC

@electrohoard Год назад

Yeah, this was pretty neat back in 1994. Man, its still neat now haha!

@flaksoft8003 Год назад

@@electrohoard Indeed, Imagine showing up in a server room and using that thing as a terminal plugged in a server's serial. A PC running on AA, medieval and badass.

@electrohoard Год назад

@@flaksoft8003 haha I remember when these first came out, most of the time I saw them was with sales force people. Here in Brazil Coca-Cola Company used it extensively. I was too young to have any contact with IT guys, but Im sure this was THE THING to have back then.

@psychoticgiraffe Год назад

now we need to use it for game programming

@electrohoard Год назад

Im not a great programmer but I do know lots of games have been designed specifically for this machine…

@psychoticgiraffe Год назад

@@electrohoard I think a hackjob of wires could turn this thing into something that'll run quake via external gpu, might need to find the diagrams for this guy or maybe use a raspberry pi to hijack this device

@electrohoard Год назад

@@psychoticgiraffe i guess a raspberrypi could be the way to go. I’ve been trying to find schematics for this thing for ages and nothing.

@jameschamplin1742 Год назад

If you're going to use it as a tiny "desktop" setup, why not plug in the power to it so as to not use up the batteries?

@electrohoard Год назад

Yes, I do have the power pack and forgot about it 🤦🏻‍♂️. The battery does last a long time though, like 20 days with regular use (few hours a day).

@fields_of_regret Год назад

I've just noticed you are using windows in portuguese, are you a fellow brazilian? Se for parabéns, seu inglês é perfeito não teria notado se não fosse esse detalhe!

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you for the kind comments! Sim, brasileiro e mineiro uai! Grande abraço e obrigado por assistir!

@SnakeBush Год назад

🤔

@electrohoard Год назад

@@SnakeBush 👀

@oidpolar6302 Год назад

Could you try if it runs FreeDOS? Thanks

@electrohoard Год назад

It wont. Unfortunately you cant replace the internal DOS because its on Read Only Memory….

@sjococo Год назад

@@electrohoard put freedos or any other os on a bootable (formatted with /s argument from a DOS machine) compact flash card of 128 MB or less or selected bigger CF cards and it will boot from that CF card...

@electrohoard Год назад

@@sjococo unfortunately it wont. The hard coded boot instructions will only look for the OS on the ROM address, but it does look for autoexec.bat on the compact flash, ate least allowing it to do the startup automation I did :)

@smileyface8124 Год назад

technology has come so far that two modern day laptops wouldn't be as thick as that.

@electrohoard Год назад

Thats true. The fact it uses AA batteries makes it as thick as the batteries. The positive side is that batteries can be easily replaced anytime anywhere.

@microponics2695 Год назад

You should dump Lair of Squid to a ROM I don't think anyone has it.

@electrohoard Год назад

Yeah, another user commented just that. I really never thought this was such an obscure piece of software, especially because I have read online that people had dumped the 200LX ROM, but nothing specific about Lair of Squid. I will do that, just dont know if it will happily run on any PC without HP system manager software. We’ll see.

@dheadandia8534 8 месяцев назад

keren unik

@yougnomed630 Год назад

3:29 laptop like mine

@electrohoard Год назад

Thinkpads are just the best! Thanks for watching :)

@georgegardei8074 Год назад

"All the mouses I found were..." lol Plural for mouse is mice. :-)

@electrohoard Год назад

Haha sorry for that. English is not my native language :)

@electrohoard Год назад

@@SolarLantern424 haha regards from Brazil to the UK!

@CB3ROB-CyberBunker Год назад

and here i always was. thinking wintendo 3.0 requires a 286... turns out it never did :P but still the lx200 doesn't have an 8088/8086 core but an 80186 (basically a 286 without protected mode but with all the other nifty instructions for real mode) and as such -that- is not an 'xt' or even 'xt compatible'. it is better. :P

@electrohoard Год назад

Thank you for watching :)

@Popclone Год назад

I smell a Pico W with BlueTooth support muhahahahaha

@electrohoard Год назад

Maybe I could try that in the future? 🤔

@theol1044 Год назад

Great video, thanks a lot. Maybe you could edit your videos a bit more to make them a little shorter. EDIT: I just saw that your other videos *are* quite a bit shorter. So just disregard my former comment.

@electrohoard Год назад

Yeah, this one ended up too long. I’ll keep the shorter, lesson learned haha.

@mm345-0 Год назад

I'd disagree, I like the longer formats. I think that what would help (if not a lot of work)is breaking up this video into different chapters - so if folks want to skip to parts they're interested in, they can. Just blanket making all videos very short feels like a disservice.The audience that cares about these things is pretty niche and, at least me personally, I find having longer videos to be more informative. I don't need a 5mins surface review of something I can look up on wikipedia.I want a longer video that dives into stuff I didn't know/consider.

@electrohoard Год назад

@@mm345-0 I havent learned how to mark chapters yet but I’ll do some research and start doing that! My plan is to keep videos just a little shorter than this one

@rsc9520 Год назад

THE VIDEO IS *JUST FINE* AS IT IS. I AM THANKFUL ELECTROHOARD DID ALL THIS HARD WORK TO *SHARE* WITH US.

@rsc9520 Год назад

@@mm345-0 I agree, you are right! These longer videos are very interesting - you can learn a lot about the palm pc.

@ministervvardenfell Год назад

SO! 😀

@electrohoard Год назад

SO… cool? Haha

@ministervvardenfell Год назад

@@electrohoard so cool! 😀

@electrohoard Год назад

@@ministervvardenfell 😍 thanks!

@ministervvardenfell Год назад

@@electrohoard you're welcome 😉

@elrincondellobezno6726 Год назад

Run Doom?

@electrohoard Год назад

There should be a version that could run on it, bur I havent had the time to try yet…. Its an XT machine so regular DOOM wont run, maybe a modded version.

@elrincondellobezno6726 Год назад

@@electrohoard I see, anyway Great Work my friend!

@electrohoard Год назад

@@elrincondellobezno6726 thank you so much 😃

@DookNookim 3 месяца назад

Google doomtd3

@motivate2568 Год назад

Plz make a video on Naruto uzumaki

@electrohoard Год назад

Could you please be more specific? Is there a Naruto DOS game that will run on this palmtop? Is that what you are asking? I will do my best to fulfill all requests :)

@andreabc1469 Год назад

2MB Ram 😂

@electrohoard Год назад

Super powerful! Hahahahah long time ago that was more than you’d ever need…

@zackwoodring1322 Год назад

Sorry to ask this but, can it run DOOM?

@electrohoard Год назад

Feel free to ask anything. The 200LX specs are not up to running the regular version of DOOM, but there are rumors that somebody got a stripped down version to run on it. Unfortunately theres no proof of this so the short answer is no, I dont think it can run DOOM since its an XT machine with a 80186 processor and only 640K of RAM…

@electrohoard Год назад

In these regard the Windows CE palmtops would be superior and far more capable of running DOOM, either a recompiled version or simply running the original version over a DOS Emulator.

@DookNookim 3 месяца назад

Google doomtd3

@mwk1 10 месяцев назад

So 😆

@electrohoard 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching!

@axellitoral1503 Год назад

Can it run DOOM?

@electrohoard Год назад

Sorry, XT computers wont run DOOM properly :(

@axellitoral1503 Год назад

@@electrohoard DOOM run on everything!!! There should be a MODDED DOOM for XT!!!

@axellitoral1503 Год назад

@@electrohoard watch?v=l_J5heRV4Yk

@electrohoard Год назад

@@axellitoral1503 I agree!!! Im not aware of an XT compatible DOOM but if anyone reading this knows, I’ll definitely make a video of it running DOOM!

@DookNookim 3 месяца назад

Google doomtd3

@stoptherussiannazis50 Год назад

REVIEW DOES NOT MEAN TO TURN THE DEVICE IN YOUR HANDS!... dissslike

@ericfort940 Год назад

The title is clickbait! He's not BUILDING anything! This is simply about configuring an hp 200LX to run windows 3.0.

@electrohoard Год назад

Well, usually when we say build refering to computers, it means we are putting together parts to make a working PC. No one is actually saying he will manufacture the motherboard, the printer, the mouse, or code all the software, OS, etc… I suppose you also did not watch the full video, since I also show how to use a mouse and where to source a suitable adapter to make one work on the 200LX, and also configured, connected and tested a portable printer. Getting Windows 3.0 to run was actually the least important part of the video and I dont even go into much detail on that since its pretty straight forward. I guess you’ll like to watch these parts you missed, its pretty interesting the final outcome with everything connected! Thanks for watching!

@mm345-0 Год назад

No channel has ever used clickbait. Also - technically, he "built" the mouse connector. And that counts in my book.

@DK640OBrianYT Год назад

Have you considered using a 16-bit PCMCIA IBM MicroDrive with your Hewlett Packard 200LX? First edition came with 170MB and 340MB capacity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive I also wonder if the old IBM 16-bit PCMCIA-SCSI adapter would work? With such an adapter you might be able to attach an SCSI-CDROM/CDWriter or a string of 7-15 SCSI devices. Overkill perhaps, but the thought of it is tempting.

@electrohoard Год назад

Yes I did, and I do have a few microdrives around, but they wont fit. These are Compact Flash Type II format unfortunately. Of course I could try to mod the inside of the 200LX to fit them but I dont think it would be worth the trouble since flash CF card consume less power and work just fine. But it sure would be really nice to know there was and actual hard disk spinning inside the 200LX if the microdrive could fit.