PalmOS no more? :(

[Huw Davies]

On 30/09/2005, at 10:29 AM, Liam Proven wrote:

> On 30/09/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>> My Tandy Pocket Computer (a PC-8) still has the same battery in it  
>> that
>> it did when I bought it used.  Granted, I don't hammer away at it
>> extensively, but I've coded in BASIC programs to factor numbrers to
>> their primes and various other tasks and fooled with it enough.  I am
>> talking about a machine as thin as a light-duty calculator which  
>> uses a
>> coin battery.  I've owned it personally for more than four years  
>> now and
>> it STILL has the same battery.  And it has retained my BASIC programs
>> that long.
>>
>
> OK, I'm impressed, I have to admit it.

I just checked my Sharp PC-1211 (which is the same thing) and the  
battery is almost dead - the screen is hard to read but it still  
works. Given that I've had it for 20 years or so that's not too bad!

I'll pick up a new battery later today (should last another 20 years!).

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