Portables

[Harrison]

That 1MB SRAM card will also work in an Amiga A600/A1200 to add 1MB fast ram.

[Stephen Coates]

It will, but would be a bit pointless considering that I already have 128MB of fast ram

[J T]

Yeah, but can that run the Gorilla game in QBasic?

[Stephen Coates]

*wonders what that is*

[Harrison]

But for an A600 that 1MB fast ram is a lot harder to add to the system, so is quite a sort after expansion card.

[Stephen Coates]

SRAM cards do seem to be rather expensive.

The downside with this one is that I'm not sure which way up the battery goes.

I don't think I'll really use it in the 100LX as 1MB is a bit small. I will probably get a compact flash card instead.

[Stephen Coates]

I've just seen a 2MB SRAM card sell for about 40 pounds on ebay. Any idea why they are so expensive?

I'm going to get some compact flash cards to start running new programmes on the HP 100LX and to transfer things to/from the PC. I might also install Windows 3.0 on it if I can find a copy.

Here's a photograph of it working: http://stevecoates.net/stuff/hp100lx.jpg

Meanwhile, if you fancy a 386 machine and have a spare 12 million pounds, you could buy this Compaq which has a gas plasma display: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=270726354443