Accurite Floppy Drive 1.44 with Passportcard and HP 200LX

Hi everyone, I have a working pcmcia accurite floppy I fixed after going through few new and used ones on ebay. Ended up fixing the old used ones replacing the belts and fixing a broken head mechanism. The issue is my palmtop 200lx is doublespeed and I found that the stock driver by accurite does not support it. It works on another unmodded hp 200lx but I mainly use the 4MB/doublespeed one. Been trying to find this updated driver which they sent to customers by email apparently without any luck. I searched the internet and this company is offline since 2017. I have tried to contact them with no luck. If anyone hs the updated driver it would be such a great help. The hp200lx super page does not have it too. I appreciate any help!
Happy New Year!
Here is a post by someone named John describing how he got the driver via email, it's dated 1999 so yeah John never replied to my emails.

http://www.verycomputer.com/25_1e1b1a46ca220f8a_1.htm

Saif

Edited by saif 2022-01-03 7:32 AM

What an interesting project and congratulations on the success so far, albeit with a stock 200LX.

Have you tried here:

http://lists.hp200lx.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hplx

If you join, then post by email, you may get the needed response from those veterans.

Welcome here,
Jake

I think I have the driver here.

Send me a PM and I will get it to you!,

Cheers,
Radiance

I am happy to put it in the download centre if you want it back in the public domain.

Ok,

Here is a link to the archive, it contains both the drivers for DOS and the drivers for Windows:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R8cRE9TPn64Ax7dV3eOHOlQEtGkrVO1C/vi...

It's a zip file containing both DOS and windows archives and it's hosted/shared from my google drive...

Cheers,
Radiance

Copied to the DLC
https://www.hpcfactor.com/downloads/1917/Accurite_PassportCard_Trave...

Would any pcmcia floppy drive work with the 200LX? Or how to know which ones do?

Uhm, definitely a no. However:

It might if:

- You write your own driver (based on low level stepping etc...) - as accurite did for their floppy drive, while setting the clock right for single vs double speed LX's.

- power the floppy externally.


Michel

Edited by michelbel 2022-06-01 3:36 PM

Thanks! You’re my LX guru! I never been so interested in these machines as I am lately!