I'm looking to acquire a couple of Amstrad NC100s or NC150s for an embedded application. These were quite popular back home in Australia, but seem to be very thin on the ground now. I don't know if they were ever sold here in the USA but I've been bidding on them on eBay. I'll pay a reasonable price, and airmail shipping.
Alternatively I'll take recommendations for something else with a fullsize QWERTY keyboard, 80x8 or 40x4 character LCD and serial port, that can run a 2400/8N1 terminal, includes an onscreen text editor, and can either transfer straight text over the serial port or store it on a PCMCIA card (linear SRAM is fine).
IOW I need to be able to edit command files (ASCII text files) on the device, and upload them to an embedded device using the terminal program. I also need to be able to interact with the embedded device using the termprg, and make ASCII notes that can be saved to a text file on the device, and later transferred to a PC.
The NC200 is not ergonomically great for my needs but could be used if necessary.
I know about the Alphasmart devices but the modern ones are too complex and high-end for my needs and the Palm OS is a PITA to work with; conduits, strange filesystems, etc. I don't have enough info on the older models to know if they could be adapted for my needs.