PalmOS no more? :(

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: PalmOS no more? :(
>   From: Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net>
>   Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:12:40 -0500
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:51:44 +0100
>Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 28/09/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 40h use? I flat-out don't believe you. That's /use/ - not standby
>> time, which is many *months*. We're talking 2 *days* of *continuous*
>> operation.

My PX8 killed the last two set of batteries from use and all.  With a good 
set I expect something like 14-16 hours of continous use.  The best use of 
it was some data logging where it would take a few reading via serial port
every few minutes for as long as the batteries lasted.  With the sleep 
function that was just over three weeks of data.  They had planned to use 
at the time a fairly decent laptop and two marine batteries for that.

>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.

I have the proto for a PC8 or similar only it's not pretty package but 
still after 23 years its functional and all it needs for power is a few
AA cells.

However the portable on batteries death match goes to the Tandy M100 and 
friends. It's both good on batteries and uses cells available anywhere.


Allison