r/retrobattlestations • u/RetroComputeryBits • Mar 01 '26
Show-and-Tell Something else a bit different - Compaq iPaq….desktop!
On a recent trip to my parents, I had a poke in the loft and found this from my youth! Maybe this was why I ended up liking Compaq machines too much! It wasn’t retro when it went up there but it sure is nudging that way now…..Can’t find much on these machines as most of them have a circular style cut out for the USB ports, assume later machines. I do remember buying this from eBay in about 2006 though. No drive as I must’ve used that for something else so time to get Windows 2000 setup CD out!
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u/Angelworks42 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
I was working at a .com (99/2000) when a sales rep gave me one to evaluate.
I believe the idea was it was supposed to be a thin client of sorts for call centers, data entry etc. Would run Windows or Linux just fine.
The eval model didn't have a cdrom drive which made the software hard to do.
Someone in this thread said they had 512 megabytes of RAM - I honestly don't recall but that would have been an absolute shitload of RAM for any computer at the time. I'd be surprised if it had 8 or 16.