Who is the Father of the community?

ROFL, in early 1998... In July 1998 the CE 2.10 core RTM'd, The 690 wasn't released until 1999 and the 720 didn't appear in the conciousness of those in the know until April 2000. To make matters worse, the CE 3.0 core didn't formally RTM until June 2000! (Although platform releases did arrive ahead of it).

Take, Salt, Of, With, Pinch

Agreed... I dunno... The site was there though in 98. I have no clue how the name came about though.

A long time ago I bought a Mac and the seller tossed in a Newton. I threw it in a drawer and passed it on when I sold the Mac. IIRC, I never turned it on, figuring it was a useless novelty. Fast forward to early last year when I bought and lost a 6651, then bought another 6651, a slew of defective Toshiba 740's (all returned), a dirt cheap E200 and J565, a 690 on a whim which I sold off after realizing I couldn't surf worth beans on it.

I use the E200 for daily toting, the 6651 all the time at home, and my companion has the 565.

a) March 1998 - Phillips Velo 1
b) Forum Post Aug 2002 - CE City
c) 1998

a) oh if hpc only, then november 2004... jornada 720
b) does it have to be a wince forum? ok, then august 2004, pdamania.hu/forum
c) december 2000, a psion 3a

i guess i was a little late in acquiring a wince device but i couldn't afford them earlier. actually i still can't at least not these many devices...
but how good it would have been to have one in 1996, i could have used it for a lot of things apart from PIM.

Edited by cmonex 2005-07-15 11:12 PM

Well, I'm probably the oldest H/PC user here- I bought a Hewlett Packard 320LX Palmtop PC the day they came out (in fact, I was officially the second person in Australia to own a Windows CE device)!

Cost me about $AU1500 (that was a fair bit of money back then)...

Sadly, I've only recently made my debut online as for the first time, I have Internet access (still don't have a computer though...)!

I've also had the luck of owning almost every Hewlett Packard Handheld PC to date at some point or another!

But I got sucked-in to the whole Pocket PC thing (Pocket PCs are better suited to the industry I'm in) and have sold most of them since, so I'm in the process of re-purchasing them all (I intend to purchase the leading H/PC from each generation of Windows CE for collector's purposes)...

Actually Cyba, the 320 makes you a user in March/April 1997 (may be later if the AU release we deferred), so I still think BTRimmer pips you to the post on Christmas 1996.

Actually, the 320LX made it to the shelves in Australia virtually as soon as it became available in the States (it's one of the few times something from the States has come out here so quickly!); it was one of three Windows CE 1.0 launch devices- the others were a 300LX and a Cassiopeia A something...

Hewlett Packard and Casio were two of only three companies to release a CE 1.0 device in Australia (/// was the 3rd); nothing else made it here.

The situation was much the same here - and predominantly still is.

NEC's in the UK, well, just aren't. hp like everywhere (except may be Asia?) ruled the roost.

As far as HPCs were concerned, about the only ones I've seen first hand in Singapore was the Jornadas, which was designed and manufactured by the team in HP Singapore. Strangely, I *almost* got into the HP handheld division back in '98 but bomb out the interview ... and ended up in some multimedia company doing Something Blaster something!

EDIT: ok, that still does not put me ahead in the game ...

so when was that? i'm curious

I'm telling you, it was (really) late '96, not early '97; I am so certain of this because I remember that I bought it just in time for christmas...

hum, Interesting. Either we're all losing track of time, or the hp press department is (was). Either way your certainly up there with the old timers *bows respectfully*

Did your 820 turn up yet, your signature seems to imply no?

he's already got the j820 but can't access hpcfactor with it.