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From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen NE Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Rumours on new HP handheld
Keywords: HP, New
Message-ID: <2586@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 26 Nov 90 12:52:52 GMT
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Organization: STORC, Veldhoven
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Originator: jurjen@lijster.cwi.nl


Kan anybody give me more details on the following rumours I've
heard about a system called "Jaguar"?

>From what I hear, it may be produced by the PC department, not the
Calculator department, but it sure is a handheld...


The "Jaguar" system (that's the name I've heard) is a handheld
aimed at the business market.
It is a clamshell design (what about that!) allined horizontally.
The upper half is a LCD display capable of 16 lines with 40 characters,
and the lower half is a QWERTY keyboard.

Its size is 3.4 x 6.3 x 1 inch (8.6 x 16 x 2.54 cm).

Its software consists of:
- HP19B compatible calculator (definitely business oriented)
- Lotus 123 compatible spreadsheet
- WordPerfect compatible wordprocessor

It has 512 Kb RAM and 1 Mb ROM.

It will be introduced around april 1991, and it's price
will be somewhere in the neigbourhood of $430 - $575 (that's f1500,-
to f2000,- in dutch guilders).

I hope I haven't told any HP-secrets, but this information was very
easy to get here in the Netherlands.

This information comes from STORC, the Dutch users club for RPL
Calculators. We understand the "Jaguar" will not run RPL, but who
knows, HP might make it compatible with the 48's plug-in cards, or
maybe release RPL for the machine.

The address of STORC is:        My address is:
STORC                           Eric Toonen
P.O. Box 616                    Djept-Zuid 6
5600 AP Eindhoven               5502 RP Veldhoven
Netherlands                     Netherlands

You can reach me via E-mail at:
s89406143@hsepm1.hse.nl    <-- prefered but hard to type
eric@hsepm1.hse.nl         <-- local alias, don't know how long it will stand