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==Reception== {{original research|date=April 2010}} The Poqet PC was one of the first subnotebooks to exist in the marketplace, and still today{{When|date=August 2011}} is one of the smallest, although it is beaten by the [[HP 200LX]]. It was immediately recognized as a milestone in portable computing when [[PC Magazine]] awarded the Poqet PC development team ([[Ian H. S. Cullimore]], John P. Fairbanks, Leroy D. Harper, Shinpei Ichikawa, [[Stavro Evangelo Prodromou]]) its coveted Technical Excellence Award for 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1177471,00.asp|title=The 6th Annual Awards (1989)|date=12 March 2002|work=[[PC Magazine]]|accessdate=2013-02-24}}</ref> The same device that PC World called "one of the 50 greatest gadgets of the last 50 years"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/123950-6/the_50_greatest_gadgets_of_the_past_50_years.html|title=The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years |date=2005-12-24|work=[[PCWorld]] |access-date=2013-02-24}}</ref> had a very short lifespan, from only about 1989-1994. After Poqet was bought by Fujitsu, the Poqet was soon axed. For a short time Poqet value declined, with the onset of [[Windows CE]]. A similar decline in HP 200LX demand also occurred after the introduction of HP Windows CE machines. However, despite the new machines' power, their operating system soon proved to be inefficient. The Poqets and HP 'LX' DOS machines became very high in demand. Poqets also are in fairly high demand, but fetch somewhat lower prices. A Cherry Hill, NJ business, Disks 'n' Data, once had a stock of Classics and Pluses. As the owner of the store, Jerry Tessler, put it: "I sold them all in twenty minutes." Unlike running Windows CE, running DOS in near-standard specifications meant that everything from [[Lotus 1-2-3]] to [[Zork]] worked as expected.
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