[Press Relaese］
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July 16, 1999
To whom it may concern:
Street Sign-in Campaigns Stand up against Discontinuance of HP 200LX
FHPPC: NIFTY SERVE Hewlett-Packard PC Users' Forum
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Inspired by the announcement of Hewlett-Packard Co. on July 6 (U.S.Time),
"HP to Discontinue HP 200LX Series Palmtop PC", we, members of FHPPC,
will hold Street Sign-in Campaigns at three big cities in Japan on
Saturday, July 17 (13:00-18:00 JST). The places are three big and
famous computer towns, Akihabara in Tokyo, Ohsu in Nagoya and Nipponbashi
in Osaka.
The main purpose of these campaigns is to deliver the voices of the
concerned LX users and to request to continue HP 200LX production.
Collected signatures will be submitted to Hewlett-Packard Co. with other
electronic signatures, signatures on the papers via mail, etc.
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HP 200LX is a palmtop PC and was put on the market in 1994. Despite
that its generations-old Operating System, MS-DOS, HP 200LX is the
personal computer that still gets many users' support in view of the
portability and the usability.
The Japanese version of HP 200LX originally didn't exist. However, users
created the "Japanization software" in the period of the ancestors,
HP 95LX and HP 100LX, that would enable to run many programs in
Japanese on the computer. Hewlett-Packard Co. JAPAN finally recognized
such user-made "Japanization software", which led it to release
the Japanization software (JKIT) as a software package. JKIT was
originally made by the efforts and activities of FHPPC and its members.
Apparently, the discontinuance announcement was a surprise and a
discouragement for us who have given much efforts into LXs. We
understand every product has a life cycle, but still we want to voice
our request that HP 200LX should still be on the Hewlett-Packard Co.'s
production lines. Because it is very difficult to apply our knowledge
to and transfer our programs to the new palmtop PC that HP recommended.
Moreover, probably because no official Japanese version of HP 200LX has
been released by the company, it also makes hard for us to transfer the
accumulated data from HP 200LX to the new palmtop PC.
As written above, we have always realised that someday Hewlett-Packard
Co. would terminate its HP 200LX line, but we cannot accept the
termination of the product sales without a new model that DOES reflect
our requirements, the desire for upgradability and full compatibility
with HP 200LX.
We, FHPPC users' forum, collect and send such users' voices to Hewlett-
Packard Co. and request it to retract the discontinuance announcement
and to promote the development of substitutive models.
We are pleased to announce that, as a part of our activities, the street
sign-in campaigns are scheduled as follows:
Date : Saturday, July 17, 1999
Time : 13:00 -18:00(JST)
Place: Akihabara Tokyo, Ohsu Nagoya, Nipponbashi Osaka
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Group name
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- FHPPC: Hewlett-Packard PC Users' Forum
FHPPC stands for "Hewlett-Packard PC users' Forum."
It is engaged in various activities concerning HP palmtop computers
on Japanese NIFTY SERVE network.
Representative name
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- NORI
E-mail address
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- Representative : NORI
mail address :
- The person in charge of press announcement : YAFO
mail address :
Related URL
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- The press announcement of discontinuance of HP200LX production by
Hewlett-Packard company.
http://www.hp.com/pressrel/jul99/06jul99.html
- FHPPC users' forum.
http://www.nifty.ne.jp/forum/fhppc/
- Anti-200LX-Discontinuation Campaign Page
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002310/save200lx.html
Related Articles
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- Impress PC Watch article. : HP to Discintinue HP 200LX Series
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/990707/hp.html
- Mainichi Newspapers Mainichi INTERACTIVE mobile article.
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/digital/mobile/199907/08/08.htmll
- CNET Japan Tech News article. :Two portables fall victim to new trends.
http : //japan.cnet.com/News/1999/Item/990708-1.htmll (Japanese)
http://japan.cnet.com/News/1999/Item/990708-1.htmll
- Mainichi Newspapers DailyMail Mobile article.
http://dm.mainichi.co.jp/mobile/back/9907/0708.htmll#news8
- Impress AKIBA PC Hotline! Article. : HP's Discontinuance Announcement
Triggers a Steep Rise in HP 200LX Sales
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/990710/etc_200lx.htmll
- Impress PC Watch article. : HP 200LX Users to Stage Campaigns against
HP's Discontinuance Announcement
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/990713/200lx.html
- Mainichi Comunications MYCOM PC WEB news 1999 . 7.14 NO.8 article.
http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/1999/07/14/08.htmll
As mentioned.
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FHPPC press announcement person in charge : YAFO
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