OT: FW: Jornada 560 dies, takes Corvallis tradition with it

Apologies that this is a bit OT, but does relate into some areas that are of interest to people on this list. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Hal Goldstein [mailto:hal_goldstein@THADDEUS.COM] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:01 PM To: HPLX-L(a)UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Subject: Jornada 560 dies, takes Corvallis tradition with it You heard it first here. We just got word, thanks to the merger, HP will no longer produce its 560 series! (It will most likely continue the 720 Handheld and successors). They will product "HP iPAQs" out of Houston. Frankly, I find it a total bummer as a long time HP watcher and supporter. This marks the official end to the tradition started by the Corvallis division, which invented the calculator. Yes, the division moved to Singapore and it was never the same. Still there were brilliant, innovative products that came from Singapore. With the new keyboard-cover HP Jornada 560, I finally, had no regrets leaving the HP 200LX. In my mind the 560 with longest battery life, fewest bugs, and removable battery was the best Pocket PC 2002. Now dead! The HP 200LX -- no successor, and from this list's point of view the best PDA ever. Dead. The OmniBook 800 -- efficient design, built in mouse, truly portable. Dead. The OmniBook 300 -- could actually run it on 4 AA batteries! OS in ROM. Built-in mouse. Dead The HP 110 and Portable Plus -- 1985 -- DOS portable with 9 hour battery life. Everything in ROM. Wonderful machines. Dead. Now we have HP Houston (who outsources the manufacture and much of the design of the unit). Good bye any sense of HP as we knew it. YUK! We will have info as we receive it at www.pocketpcmag.com Hal at Thaddeus ** HPLX-L LIST Info at http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mchem1/HPLX.shtml