PalmOS no more? :(

[Tandy PC8] The Tandy / Radio Shack Pocket Computers were actually made by either Sharp or Casio, and were prety close to standard machines of those manufactuerers. The PC1 was almost identical to the Sharp PC1211 (IIRC, the difference was that the former didn't have a Yen sign on the keyboard, but the appropriate keystrokes still generated it). The PC2 was similar to the Sharp PC1500. Similar but not identical. The circuitry was the same, the ROM was the same (or at least close enough that the peripherals -- printer and RS232 interface -- for one would work on the other). But the keyboard layout was different. This would have meant a new top case moulding and new upper PCB, so no idea why they did it, but they did. I found this out the hard way, I have the Radio Shack RS232 module. In the ROM is a dumb terminal emulator program. It rusn fine on the Sharp, but the supplied overlay (to indicate the functions of some of the keys) doesn't fit. I think the PC3 was also a Sharp. The PC4 was a Casio PB410. AFAIK it was identical The PC5, 6, 7 were also Casio, but I can't remember the details. And I've never seen a PC8 -tony