Obsolecence (Was RE: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube)

At 02:38 PM 9/9/02 +0000, Joe Rigdon wrote: Absolutely. I have two of them here, and still use them. The most interesting use so far is in conjunction with a PCMCIA smartcard reader, but they're very handy as a serially-connected computer terminal. I disliked the 320LX and the later Jornadas, both because of Windows CE cruft and because software development suddenly got a lot more difficult than on the 200LX. The 200LX would run (nearly any) straight DOS program and I wrote several utilities using normal development tools, many of which made use of the serial port (the earlier 95LX had a different serial port configuration). Equivalent development on the Jornada series was expensive, time-consuming, and basically wasted effort. It's off-topic, but I've got a 360LX (built 1997) here if anyone is interested in a trade. There is still a thriving 200LX "community" of users. See, for example, http://www.palmtop.net/ and http://www.palmtoppaper.com/ Cheers, Dan www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html