Ancient tech treasures

The future is fantastic, but so is the present day argues Jon Honeyball.

Jon Honeyball

I love a good computer jumble fair. You never know what you might find, and there is always the tantalising possibility of coming across something extremely rare that you have been hankering after for years. Even decades. So when I heard that the most excellent Centre For Computing History in Cambridge was going to be holding just such an event, it had to go into the diary. Upon arrival, straight away on a table I spotted something that immediately piqued my interest. A fully boxed HP 360LX Palmtop PC, complete with accessories, manuals and full documentation including the licence sheet from Microsoft for CE 2.0. Which even had the hologram sticker in place. I had one of these back when they were new, so how could I not renew the…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023

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