For some time now, I’ve had the HP Jornada 720 sat in my watch list on eBay. Last week, one popped up with my favourite word in the title, “FAULTY”.
The description said the device was all working apart from the keyboard. This was either going to be an easy repair or something a lot more difficult. I decided to take a chance and made an offer on the device, which was accepted.
Upon receiving the device, the description was accurate. They said that it was never opened, which was confirmed by the warranty sticker still being intact. I opened it up, pulled the keyboard ribbon cable out and gave it a clean with some IPA. I then connected it back up, and everything is now fully working.
A nice and simple repair, and now I have a fully working device to play around with.
And yes, it does run Doom!
