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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 2:51 PM
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In this Japanese site, I found a machine called PowerNote 2400 which is a strange little device.

According to the site, it was a modified version of NEC Mobile Gear. In reality, it was (hand)made by a Japanese guy who showed it off at a Macworld EXPO/Tokyo secretly. Pretty neat that it runs emulated bootscreen of Mac OS 6.x

https://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/002/630/2630577/

Just thought I’d share.

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Edited by stingraze 2020-10-24 2:53 PM
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hpcboy Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 3:00 PM
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Mac PowerNote 2400... I like it. The sticker is so cool.

I was reading the translation. Is that some sort of emulator or only cosmetic changes to the CE system?
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 3:07 PM
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I am not too sure, it says it emulates the boot screen. I’ve never used a System 6 which I believe is referred to as Mac OS 6 in the article. It may have been a sort of launcher?
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hpc12 Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 9:57 PM
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stingraze - 2020-10-24 2:51 PM

In this Japanese site, I found a machine called PowerNote 2400 which is a strange little device.

According to the site, it was a modified version of NEC Mobile Gear. In reality, it was (hand)made by a Japanese guy who showed it off at a Macworld EXPO/Tokyo secretly. Pretty neat that it runs emulated bootscreen of Mac OS 6.x

https://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/002/630/2630577/

Just thought I’d share.

-stingraze


This looks amazing.

Would be incredibly cool to have System 6.x running on a Handheld PC.

Apple surely would have taken the market by storm if they released a CE competitor with 68030 compatibility.
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ArchiMark Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 10:22 PM
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I'll take two of those little guys!

Very cool!

Thanks for sharing.

Mark
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ntware Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 11:29 PM
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hpcboy - 2020-10-24 10:00 AM

Mac PowerNote 2400... I like it. The sticker is so cool.

I was reading the translation. Is that some sort of emulator or only cosmetic changes to the CE system?

The first Mobile Gear ran on DOS, not WinCE: https://www.tankraider.com/DOSPALMTOP/necdocomo.html

The device looks exactly like the original Mobile Gear except for the apple sticker. But it is still nice though!

Software-wise, vMac (not mini vMac) was ported to MS-DOS as you can see here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/vmac-195
This means that, theoretically, it should be able to run System 7 (or MacOS 7) on that little device, if the CGA restriction is not too much to handle.
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CE Geek Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 11:36 PM
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Are we sure that's not a version of Newton OS?
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 11:38 PM
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Oh yes. I forgot that the original (2nd gen?) Mobile Gear ran DOS after some customization.
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2020-10-24 11:40 PM
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CE Geek - 2020-10-25 8:36 AM

Are we sure that's not a version of Newton OS?


I first thought so too, but the Japanese site says a guy just made it for fun to show it around.
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hpcboy Page Icon Posted 2020-10-25 12:18 AM
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ntware - 2020-10-25 6:29 PM

The first Mobile Gear ran on DOS, not WinCE: https://www.tankraider.com/DOSPALMTOP/necdocomo.html

The device looks exactly like the original Mobile Gear except for the apple sticker. But it is still nice though!

Software-wise, vMac (not mini vMac) was ported to MS-DOS as you can see here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/vmac-195
This means that, theoretically, it should be able to run System 7 (or MacOS 7) on that little device, if the CGA restriction is not too much to handle.


Thanks for clearing up the confusion. From MobileGear to MobilePro, the lineage is evident to me now.

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