HP Jornada 820! :D
Posted by KoneCat@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 7 comments
This is an HP Jornada 820, and I am actually so pleased to have a working one of these, as they are insanely fragile little machines. This one will be getting some donor parts, but that can wait as I'm in no rush, and as mentioned, they are insanely fragile. These often command incredible prices, but I was lucky to find this, and one other, with the power cable, a boxed Ethernet PCMCIA card, and some other bits like a very proprietary cable, all for £68.
I have three of these now, one that just stopped working, and had a bad speaker, along with a bad hinge. Another which was included with this working one, which is similarly unresponsive with a damaged hinge. I also have the leather carry case for these as well, which is in excellent condition.
And massive props to the seller, who did the best packaging I've seen thus far.
flecom@reddit
windows ce was such an interesting time, i used compaq/hp ipaqs back in the day and loved them... finally got an ibm workpad not that long ago for the collection as well
KoneCat@reddit (OP)
I've been meaning to get one of those, they look awesome! And CE was a weird time, but a fascinating OS I must admit. 😃
PoolRamen@reddit
It worked very well for general business pros with a grasp of tech back in the day.
In the early oughts I was still using Palm OS as my primary organiser (right up to the Sony NZ90, my last non-cellular PDA and my last Palm OS device) but a Palm unit was barely functional as a mobile office, which the CE's did far better.
There was a period of deeply hassletastic manual data exchange between the two until I went Windows Mobile with a variety of carrier-rebranded HTC devices.
Timbit42@reddit
I have an HP Jornada 820e which is the same as the 820 but has the modem. I've never used the modem. It is great for taking notes in class.
KoneCat@reddit (OP)
That sounds awesome! They are surprisingly excellent little machines and I must say I am so darn happy to have a working one. 😃
PoolRamen@reddit
I spent a ton of time hunched over a Jornada 720 which didn't strike me as fragile - though of course, different form factor. Fantastic workhorse for the time.
KoneCat@reddit (OP)
It's mainly just age and the hinges, which love to absolutely heck the bed. That being said, this one is nice and strong, for the most part, and I even have a boxed Ethernet PCMCIA card for it, which I was not expecting. 😃