Last month I borrowed an HP 100LX and transferred my files over to test it. I found that the 100LX was painfully slow in searching files. I tested a 32K MEMO file and a 14.4K PHONE file with the following results:
100LX 95LX MEMO forwards search 26-27 sec 3 sec backwards search (using 95Buddy "hunt" feature) 10 sec 4-5 sec
PHONE forwards/backwards search 23-24 sec 1 sec
Mark Scardina was right when he told me that a backwards search was faster in MEMO. Unfortunately, it didn't make any difference in PHONE.
The problem of slow searches makes the 100LX inferior to the 95LX for my uses.
Leonard Brubaker, M.D.
Augusta GA, USA