The HP 110 Portables and the (somewhat) DOS-incompatible HP 9114 Floppy Drive 

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I would imagine so, that this was already in some heads at the time. TCP/IP prototypes go back to the 70s, although IPv4 came to standards only in I think 1983-ish. Mobile evolution with 1G and 2G came to standard terms in the very early ninetines, and soon after introduced packet communication, although with a meager 9600 bits in the first iterations. But mobile networks pre-G1 ("G0") already existed since the 70s. And, as far as WiFi data communication technology goes, it was IIRC demonstrated in the early 70s as well. So I believe the concepts were surely known at the time, though no actual use-case had yet materialized, and technology was also not yet ready.

@@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR Seriously, the concept of transmitting digital data over radio waves dates back to the early 1970s??

@@AdrianuX1985 Yes, it was called ALOHAnet. It's certainly not what we think of WiFi networks today, but somewhat a distant precursor technology. And some of the ethernet characteristics we still use today date back to this original concept.

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Nope, as it's propably archived already on the www.hpmuseum.org/ I didn't check though, TBH.

Actually it all seems there on www.hpmuseum.org/software/swcdp.htm, available for purchase on CD/DVD for 38$ (=contribution to the operating costs)

Yeah, it's well possible. Don't have an Apricot, so I never dug into that topic. But I have another machine here, which came in the same period with 3.5" drives, and originally with MS-DOS 2.11 as well. It too, when running MS-DOS 2.11 has floppy interop issues, but works just fine when using a later release of MS-DOS 3.2.

i think the formats work well for the CP/M-86 and PCP/M 86(Personal CP/M 86)

Yeah, that is hopefully possible. There‘s a Kermit version specific for the 110, I will need to look into it. I‘m curious as well.

I‘d think very much like in the same way as the floppy drive. You configure it‘s presence. Like for the floppy, telling in config there is 1 (up to 3 floppy drives sre supported), and then you can start using it. I‘d assume for printers and other extensions it woulf be likewise. Can‘t demo it, as the only HP-IL devices I currently have is three shown in the video. Would love to get though the HP-92 (www.hpmuseum.org/hp92.htm), my father had this one, with many accessories. Though everything thrown away in the years…

@asanjuas If you're referring to the open point of the SYDEX drivers, yes. I intend to do a follow-up on this topic.

@@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR i appreciate that. Of course i want a video on the topic of DR-DOS even Concurrent DOS 386.

@@asanjuas there will be, there will be!

@@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR Thank you very much!!