[OB] Interested in buying a Omnibook 425 or 430

[Jean-Yves Pontailler]

Hi !

The address of Compules was given by Marlous Weldt who bought
a 430 there before me. We both have to thank her a lot !

When I received the OB425, I installed a CF card (with an adapter)
in the C drive. If I remember well, the OB does not accept too big
cards, probably because of some bios limitations. In A and B slots
the limit seems to be over 252 Mb but below 512 Mb. I have not
tried in C drive but it is probably similar.

The important point is (in my opinion) to disable the doublespace
compression that slowers the machine. This was wery useful when
flash cards were very expensive but is now useless.
To do this I used OBmax software, provided by Bob (apparently not
on the list anymore) when he sold me a OB300 (the one that fell
from a high tower).

Good luck with your brand new machine !
Jean-Yves

hpl a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> I received a reply from info at compules.nl and they had
> one Omnibook 425 left.
>
> It has 8Mb RAM (2Mb on board + 6 Mb in expansion slot),
> a 40 Mb HD, and comes with the original box, manuals, power
> adapter and cord, a 9-pin serial cable, 9 to 25 pin adapter and
> a "HP Omnibook Companion disk".
>
> The price was 62.95 EUR (90 USD) including S&H. It should
> arrive sometime next week.
>
> It is a bit expensive for such a old machine but I thought it was
> worth it considering that I got the box, manuals and the other things
> that the machine originally came with.
>
> Here is the image I got from them by email. Quality isn't all that good,
> probably taken by a cellphone considering the resolution (320x240).
>
> http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8428/hpomnibook425completeseqq5.jpg
>
> Thanks to Jean-Yves for helping me out!
>
> What I wonder now is; is it possible to replace the HD by using
> a 1Gb CF card and a CF/PCMCIA adapter?
>
> I tried reading the archives but got bored after five hours worth of
> emails from 1995.
>
>
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