Retrocomputing: Getting another XT Portable PC to run Windows! This time using an SRAM card! 

Great video. I had one of these that I eventually sold off. The SRAM cards usually require a 16 bit PCMCIA bus slot. I got it working by using an older Compaq LTE Elite (486 class laptop) as a bridge computer. You still need the appropriate drivers. I forget if I made a video on this but will check.

Thiese are cool little machines. Kinda wish the form factor was still popular because i love the size of these.

It's amazing that you even manage to find these devices and still working!!

You. Can install basic software, and program on it, like spectrum.... It's nice to work some functions on it.... In advance calculators it is possible to.... Some Nokia 1905 and 1910 cell phones have Windows 3.....i like to fix them and run...... Thanks for sharing......

Great video!

I guess issues is that those cards are memory mapped banks. And newer PCMCIA doesnt even't know what to do. I got Atari Portfolio and I had to use serial file transfer bootstraping procedure to copy files to it. Not the simplest process and quite error prone. And then battery backup failed on my SRAM card on portfolio... quite annoying. I need to see if I can use some of my vintage laptops to read RAM PCMCIA cards for file transfer, but Atari used a custom card. So no dice there.

Great machine... but i still only love my Vaio UX

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DOes that other unit (not the HP) have a backlight ? Ive never seen this unit before and i collect Palmtops.

Please share a link for the serial connector project, I have one of these machines and I'd be interested in getting one! If you are looking for something to play, I made a port of Wolfenstein 3D to run on 8088 / CGA machines with an inverse LCD option :)

Where do you find these wonderful machines? It's lovely!

Can you post a link for the serial adapter pcb that you found? I have a zeos branded version of this computer.

Coolest computer I've ever seen! Where did you get it? I can't even find a Wiki page on it. Not can I find any info on Google...

I belive you can run Windows Setup from the Dos, and then you should check which driver is it using and then maybe install a different one, you should also check what graphics card does the palmtop use.

with today's tech you could put and entire computer in a card that size with TBs of SSD and GB of ram and a battery.

bruh, that is a netbook, not a palmtop, the 200lx is a palmtop, and I'm an HP48G user so I love the keyboard of the LX

It won't run on a thinkpad and even less on a XP machine; the SRAM cards have a totally different bus from PCMCIA; they simply use the same connection but the protocol and internals are totally different. You need something like a 386 or up to a pentium machine to be able to read those directly, under W95; or need to get a very expensive USB SRAM reader, which goes for about 500 dollars or more usually. Whoever is able to make modern versions of those SRAM cards and sell them at a decent price will become rich overnight

Why not put it in a camera our other divice that reads it, and then transfer it to what you want.... By the way like your honesty..... Who are you.....???