This subject keeps comming up from time to time.
The response that I keep seeing from HP is that
they don't see much of a market for such a thing.
A few months ago, I did kind of a clunky prototype
of a transportable HP 3000 and Stan Sieler
put it on their Web site.  I only got one inquiry about
it.  Now mind you, this prototype was not exactly as
lightweight as the portable HP 9000/700, nor was
it attractlively packaged.  However, it would seem to
me that if there was some kind of real market demand,
it would have precipitated some sort of discussion and
maybe some inquiries.
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Charles Finley, Open-Ended Systems Corp
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> From: Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Portable HP-UX and NT!  Why not MPE?
> Date: Tuesday, May 06, 1997 9:03 AM
>
> Gentle HP 3000 Listers,
>
> Yesterday, I was perusing the Spring issue of the HP-UX resource
directory,
> and as I opened the cover, an ad on the inside cover caught my eye, as
ads
> are supposed to do.  The picture shows a man working on what seems to be
a
> large, antiquated laptop.  Reading the text, one discovers this is not an
> ordinary laptop, but rather, a portable HP-UX workstation!
>
> The Galaxy 1100 is marketed by SAIC of San Diego, CA which describes the
> product thusly:
> "Execute complex applications, perform software development and
> demonstrations (italics are mine), network administration and other HP-UX
> computing tasks easily.  A 10.4 inch, full-color, active matrix LCD
renders
> images at a resolution of 1024 x 768, giving you superb graphics
> capability.  Powerful and portable, Galaxy 1100 is fully software
> compatible with the HP 9000/700 workstation series.  It has 32 MB of RAM,
> expandable to 128 MB with error detection/correction capability, and the
> performance and reliability of the HP PA-RISC processor."
>
> They list a web site at www.saic.com/it/stp/galaxy/index.html
> A quick check reveals they printed an invalid URL.  The real one is
> www.saic.com/it/stp/computers/galaxy.html
>
> The specs are as follow:
> 80 MHz HP 712 PA-RISC CPU; 32 MB of RAM expandable to 128 MB with error
> detection/correction capability; 2 GB hard drive; 3.5-inch 1.44 MB floppy
> drive; 10.4-inch color active matrix LCD; 2 integral PCMCIA slots; IEEE
> 802.3 Ethernet interface; SCSI-2 interface; POSIX-based HP-UX operating
> system
>
> So it has been done for the HP 9000, why can't it be done for the HP
3000?
>
> On my Compaq Armada, I currently dual boot between Windows NT Server 4.0
> and Windows 95.  When I give talks, I sometimes also carry my other
laptop
> and thus create an NT based network, running Exchange 5.0 and SQL Server
> 6.5.  With a gadget like the Galaxy, I could also connect to an HP 3000.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Denys. . .
>
> Denys Beauchemin
> Hicomp America, Inc.
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