HP 200LX and WWW
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I  finally have  made one  of  my HP  200LX machines  connected to  the
Internet! I  have got a  working NetGear FA411  PCMCIA card so  I'm now
able to connect my 200LX to hte wired Ethernet.

I have  been using the LXCic  software [1], the mTCP  (the DHCP client,
the ping and the telnet, for example) and the MicroWeb [3] for the WWW.

It's not too hard to set up taht stuff, surprisingly [4].


WWW  browsing on  a  machine with  the  8086  CPU is  of  course a  bit
limiting.  Only  http://  sites,  of  course.  And  RAM/OS/architecture
limitations are here, too (by the way, the Technomorous [5] loads quite
quickly). The whole  thing is not extremely stable and  the battery can
be eaten quite quickly (the 20LX runs on a pair of AA batteries).

I will probably have little use for  such setup but it is quite nice it
is still possible.


Written on the SGI O2 (is should be doable on the 200LX via telnet, too
but I'm way too lazy to try that!).


References:

[1] http://hplx.pgdn.de/
[2] https://www.doomi.ch/mtcp-tcp-ip-for-dos/
[3] https://github.com/jhhoward/MicroWeb
[4] https://www.palmtop.dev/palmtop/200lx/networking/2021/09/13/hp-200lx-tcp-ip-and-web-browser.html
[5] http://technomorous.eu