Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!jurjen From: s89406143@hsepm1.hse.nl (Eric Toonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: New HP handheld rumors Keywords: new products, HP, rumor Message-ID: <2631@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 30 Nov 90 08:46:25 GMT Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: STORC, Veldhoven Lines: 19 Originator: jurjen@lijster.cwi.nl This was presented in the latest issue of "Vaporware", it was found in the sources written below the article. Eric "Vaporware" article follows: Check It Out. Hewlett Packard executives have been spotted copy editing an ad for a 1 Mbyte computer about the size and shape of a checkbook. The machine will have calculator type keys, Lotus 1-2-3 2.2 in ROM, and run on alkaline batteries. The price in the ad (if they didn't change it) is $695. Meanwhile, Japanese manufacturers NEC, Fujitsu, and Sharp have shown two pound palmtops measuring nine by six by one inches. The little 10 MHz PC's will retail in Japan for about $1,500 and will eventually be introduced in the U.S. - PC Week 12 November and InfoWorld 29 October