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Windows CE was a bit of a white whale for me... something that I kept hearing about and wanted to see and experience, but I could never find anything actually r

Windows CE was a bit of a white whale for me... something that I kept hearing about and wanted to see and experience, but I could never find anything actually running it.

wahnfrieden 3y ago
Dreamcast
- pdntspa 3y ago
  Yeah but you couldn't ever open it to a desktop with Explorer and all that
- eska 3y ago
  Only a tiny minority of games used windows ce
  - wahnfrieden 3y ago
    The web browser. Didn't it ship with the console, so every console had it
TheSkyHasEyes 3y ago
I walked past a third party ATM last week. It was showing a Windows CE error.
- pdntspa 3y ago
  It amazes me how many ATMs run Windows (CE or XP), it seems like Linux would be a no-brainer for them Now that I think about it I do recall encountering a POS system running CE. But I never got to interact with it.
  - Mountain_Skies 3y ago
    OS/2 seemed to have filled much of the 'not Windows' market for ATMs.
omoikane 3y ago
FANUC probably sells more industrial robots than anyone else, and their teach pendants (the attached device for operating those big yellow robots) runs Windows CE.
- _trampeltier 3y ago
  Siemens PLC Panels also use Windows CE. Now I know why they are in a hurry for the new generation of panels.
glhaynes 3y ago
I picked up an IBM WorkPad z50[1] in ~2000 at a fire sale price. It felt in many ways like good laptops do today: small, light, quiet (no fan nor spinning disk), instant-on, long battery life, reliable. I can see why people didn't buy them (new, they cost a good chunk of what a "real" laptop would, but couldn't do nearly as much, basically just run a very stripped-down version of Office), but I always had a fondness for that little machine and only realize how much of the user experience was ahead of its time when looking back on it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WorkPad_Z50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WorkPad_Z50
- helf 3y ago
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oldbbsnickname 3y ago
You didn't miss anything. Find an old iPAQ on eBay if you want to play with Pocket PC (CE).

Windows CE was a bit of a white whale for me... something that I kept hearing about and wanted to see and experience, but I could never find anything actually running it.

wahnfrieden 3y ago

Dreamcast

pdntspa 3y ago
Yeah but you couldn't ever open it to a desktop with Explorer and all that
eska 3y ago
Only a tiny minority of games used windows ce
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  The web browser. Didn't it ship with the console, so every console had it

TheSkyHasEyes 3y ago

I walked past a third party ATM last week. It was showing a Windows CE error.

pdntspa 3y ago
It amazes me how many ATMs run Windows (CE or XP), it seems like Linux would be a no-brainer for them Now that I think about it I do recall encountering a POS system running CE. But I never got to interact with it.
- Mountain_Skies 3y ago
  OS/2 seemed to have filled much of the 'not Windows' market for ATMs.

omoikane 3y ago

FANUC probably sells more industrial robots than anyone else, and their teach pendants (the attached device for operating those big yellow robots) runs Windows CE.

_trampeltier 3y ago
Siemens PLC Panels also use Windows CE. Now I know why they are in a hurry for the new generation of panels.

glhaynes 3y ago

I picked up an IBM WorkPad z50[1] in ~2000 at a fire sale price. It felt in many ways like good laptops do today: small, light, quiet (no fan nor spinning disk), instant-on, long battery life, reliable. I can see why people didn't buy them (new, they cost a good chunk of what a "real" laptop would, but couldn't do nearly as much, basically just run a very stripped-down version of Office), but I always had a fondness for that little machine and only realize how much of the user experience was ahead of its time when looking back on it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WorkPad_Z50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WorkPad_Z50

helf 3y ago
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oldbbsnickname 3y ago

You didn't miss anything. Find an old iPAQ on eBay if you want to play with Pocket PC (CE).