PalmOS no more? :(

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:29:12 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> It's hardly a 32-bit mutitasking GUI-based RISC machine, though, is
it? :-)
> 

Nope.  It's a Tandy Pocket Computer.  It has a one line LCD display. 
It's highly non-buzzword compliant.  I mean, you program it in BASIC for
God's sake.  I think it has 4K of memory.