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Epson Flash X:Port Parallel PCMCIA HP 200LX Driver

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First post, by zikolas

Posted on 2025-04-24, 17:01

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Hello,

I’ve been searching everywhere for the HP 200LX driver for this card, it ships on the flash drive itself and on a backup floppy disk. The flash on my card is completely wiped and I have no backup floppy.

Does anyone happen to have this card with the driver they could upload? I would be very grateful.

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Reply 1 of 6, by Horun

Posted on 2025-04-25, 01:06

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From what I found: HP did not include drivers for this specific pcmcia card for the 200LX. Have you read this: http://ahmet.semih.tripod.com/hp200faqs.htm
Epson archive may have the drivers but my guess is you also need SystemSoft CardSoft for DOS to see the card correctly (the Parallel Port part) even w/o being able to write to the flash ram....

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Reply 2 of 6, by zikolas

Posted on 2025-05-11, 20:29

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Just a follow up on this, I have obtained another card with the drivers and uploaded to archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/xport_202505

Hope it's useful for anyone else who might stumble on this post.

(@Horun, thank you for your reply to my original post!)

Reply 3 of 6, by Horun

Posted on 2025-05-12, 01:32

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Good Job ! I translated those readme.txt files into English thru a AI thingy and got readable results....only took two tries 😁

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Reply 4 of 6, by zikolas

Posted on 2025-05-12, 08:09

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Good job cheers, I’d done the same myself for my own purposes which ended up being very useful because it has the dip switch configurations for the various OS, that was another unknown.

Reply 5 of 6, by Bondi

Posted on 2025-05-24, 06:29

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zikolas wrote on 2025-05-11, 20:29:
Just a follow up on this, I have obtained another card with the drivers and uploaded to archive.org: […]
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Just a follow up on this, I have obtained another card with the drivers and uploaded to archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/xport_202505

Hope it's useful for anyone else who might stumble on this post.

(@Horun, thank you for your reply to my original post!)

Cool stuff, zikolas! I spent hours looking for these drivers on old Epson websites with no luck.

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Reply 6 of 6, by zikolas

Posted on 2025-05-24, 17:14

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Bondi wrote on 2025-05-24, 06:29:

zikolas wrote on 2025-05-11, 20:29:
Just a follow up on this, I have obtained another card with the drivers and uploaded to archive.org: […]
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Just a follow up on this, I have obtained another card with the drivers and uploaded to archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/xport_202505

Hope it's useful for anyone else who might stumble on this post.

(@Horun, thank you for your reply to my original post!)

Cool stuff, zikolas! I spent hours looking for these drivers on old Epson websites with no luck.

Thanks for spending all the time you've spent, really appreciate it 😀. I refer your your PCMCIA Sound Card google doc very regularly, thank you for that too!

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