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From: anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-95LX Review
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Date: 11 May 91 05:19:59 GMT
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In article <1460013@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> cook@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Steve Cook) writes:
>What if...?  The 95 or its successor had a simple plug-in port for a
>"standard" keyboard which locked out the built-in keyboard.  I'm assuming

Well, there are several laptops with such a port.  With an external
keyboard and display, you can just fold up the laptop and put it in a
corner.  There already are full sized keyboards with standard RS-232
serial ports instead of the special keyboard serial ports used on most
MS-DOS boxes.  With the right driver one of these could be plugged into
an HP-95LX.  It would be pretty nifty to have a setup like this.  It's
interesting how in the past few years how I/O hardware has begun to
dominate physically and economically the rest of a system.

Personally, I don't have a problem with small keyboards.  I've found I
can type surprisingly well on the non-qwerty keyboard on my Psion
Organiser.  The qwerty keyboard on the Atari Portfolio was tolerable
for the hour or so that I played with it, although the spacebar was a
problem.  Of course, keyboard preferance is another one of those
personal issues.
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