HP OmniBook

Line of business laptop personal computers produced by Hewlett-Packard

HP Omnibook
HP Omnibook 6100
Developer	Hewlett-Packard
Type	Notebook
Release date	1993 (1993)
Discontinued	2002
Successor	HP Compaq, Compaq Presario, HP Pavilion

HP OmniBook was a line of business-oriented laptops created by Hewlett-Packard, introduced in 1993. It was discontinued following the acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, with the Compaq Presario, HP Compaq, and HP Pavilion laptops succeeding the OmniBook line.

Models

In no particular order of release:

OmniBook 300 (F1030A/F1031A/F1032A)
OmniBook 425 (F1033A/F1034A/F1036A)
OmniBook 430 (F1035A/F1037A/F1038A)^[1]
OmniBook 500
OmniBook 510
OmniBook 530
OmniBook 600
OmniBook 800
OmniBook 900
OmniBook 2000
OmniBook 2100
OmniBook 3000
OmniBook 4000
OmniBook 4150
OmniBook 4400
OmniBook 4500
OmniBook 5000
OmniBook 5500
OmniBook 5700
OmniBook 6000
OmniBook 6100
OmniBook 6200
OmniBook 7000
OmniBook 7100
OmniBook XE2
OmniBook XE3

Notable models

OmniBook 300

The HP OmniBook 300 (OB300) is a "superportable" laptop released in 1993 as one of the first notebook computers in the OmniBook line. It weighed only 2.9 pounds and measured 1.4 × 6.4 × 11.1 inches. It is powered by an Intel 386SXLV processor, featured a full-size keyboard, a pop-up computer mouse (The same pop-up mouse was also used in Omnibook 800CT; see the image on the right), and a 9-inch VGA screen.^[2]^[3]^[4] Due to storage limitations, the OmniBook 300 included both Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word pre-installed in ROM, which was and still remains unusual to this day.^[5] It had two PCMCIA slots for additional memory, modem, network cards or other peripherals. One of its outstanding features was a technology known as "Instant On". It was sold in three storage configurations: no mass storage (F1030A at US$1,515), 10 MB flash memory disk (F1031A at US$2,375), or 40 MB hard drive (F1032A at US$1,950). Compared to the hard drive, the flash memory disk reduced the weight and storage capacity but increased battery life. It came with slimmed-down copies of MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. The "International English" version of the OmniBook 300 used code page 850 (rather than the more common code page 437) as hardware code page.

References

^ "Windows 3.1 arbeitet auch im Enhanced Mode Hewlett-Packard erweitert die Festplatte der Omnibook-PCs". www.computerwoche.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-08.
^ "HP Virtual Museum: Hewlett-Packard OmniBook 300, 1993". Hewlett-Packard. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
^ "The OmniBook 600: Cute but Quirky". Cs.hmc.edu. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
^ "Hardware". The HP Palmtop Paper. Thaddeus Computing. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
^ "HP Computer Museum". Hpmuseum.net. Retrieved 2012-02-20.

External links

Official HP pages

OmniBook search results on HP's website
OmniBook support page, with more extensive list of models here [1]

Others

HP Omnibook Information Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine by Kieran Garbutt
HP Omnibook site by Sean McCreary

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Meg Whitman
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Antonio Neri
John F. Schultz
Bill Veghte

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products

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