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It's funny, I can pinpoint my fascination with Handheld PCs to an exact moment where I saw a HP 320lx in a catalog. Wish I had kept it, but I was very young back then!

It just completely blew my mind that you could have something that looked and felt like Windows 95 in such a tiny device. I was very lucky to randomly find a HP320lx at a flea market of an American school in Vienna some time later for a very good price (my dad bought it for me because he knew how much I was into Handhelds, despite never having owned one), and I remember having so much fun with it
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CE Geek Page Icon Posted 2021-03-03 12:50 PM
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I had the same feeling when I saw the first H/PCs in department store ads. But I wasn't willing to pay the prices they were selling for. Then I started seeing used ones selling cheap on eBay and I got turned on all over again. The rest, as they say, is history.
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I had the same feeling when I saw the first H/PCs in department store ads. But I wasn't willing to pay the prices they were selling for. Then I started seeing used ones selling cheap on eBay and I got turned on all over again. The rest, as they say, is history.
Isn't that the same story you tell about how you met your other half?
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Refurbished??!!

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CE Geek Page Icon Posted 2021-03-03 6:45 PM
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Bite your tongue, C:Amie.
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null1024 Page Icon Posted 2021-03-22 11:41 PM
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I had the same feeling when I saw the first H/PCs in department store ads. But I wasn't willing to pay the prices they were selling for. Then I started seeing used ones selling cheap on eBay and I got turned on all over again. The rest, as they say, is history.


Yeah, this was what got me to attempt to get a Jornada 680 recently.

I remember absolutely years ago, seeing all the cool handheld PC stuff in mail-order catalogs, but it just absolutely wasn't happening for me at full price. Back in the day, I ended up being a Palm guy, with a Palm m100, and was given a Sony Clie that I used a bunch until it just stopped powering on one day.
Still, I really did want a CE device like mad at the time, especially with a keyboard.

Lately, I found myself thinking about how much I'd love a nice, small computer with a keyboard again, and now I'm here.
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