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HP OmniGo 100: A Recollection...from the archives (circa 
early 2000's)

The HP OmniGo 100 was my first handheld that had a 
clamshell design and was pen-based. It was also my first 
modern organizer with a PIM, etc. I was very excited when I 
purchased it.  I was working at ChumpUSA at the time and 
spent most of my paycheck on it. I was surprised that it ran 
GEOS for its operating system because I used to run GEOS on 
my Commodore 64 back in the day. 

It had standard PIM apps but the thing I really dug was the 
database application. Definitely a nice feature. The Pocket 
Quicken application was cool too, but that was a third-party 
app that did not come with the unit (I think).  After I 
bought it, I found out that you can synchronize the OmniGo 
with your PC with the seperately sold cable and connectivity 
pack. I thought that was really cool and hi-tech back then 
but it's included with most handhelds these days, even the 
ones <$100US. There were even some DOS programs out on the 
net that let you work with the file system. Rawkin'!  

I was very happy when I discovered that there was a community 
of OmniGo owners online. I didn't realize that there was so 
much information and third-party apps out there. Back then, 
the World Wide Web was still pretty much in its infancy and 
very new to me. I remember always going onto usenet and 
looking for articles about the OmniGo. Just being able to do 
that kind of research, finding so much information, and 
asking other users questions from different parts of the 
world was so exciting to me. And I didn't even have any toll 
charges or anything.  This whole innaweb thing, just 
incredible ;)

I eventually sold the OmniGo and picked up a handheld that 
ran some Windows OS, codename: Pegasus.

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