Any former Psion 5 owners out there?

Liam, quoting me: Sorry if I sounded as though I was starting a Psion 3 vs 5 war. That was far from my intention! I was merely saying that this is Classiccmp! You don't look on Classiccmp for _former_ owners of nice machines, but for people who still use them! And not just the Psion 5 - your post is equally relevant to people like me who use the 3. Or the HP 95, 100 and 200 palmtops. Or plenty of other machines. Fair enough. I'm not criticising you for it. I got my first two Psion 3 machines when they were withdrawing the Psion 5 at work. We were asked to find any Psion 5 machines lying around and send them in for recycling :-( On a shelf we found a box with two Psion 3c machines in instead. Since we hadn't been asked to return those, I kept them. (With the former user's blessing, I may add) I never had much exposure to the Psion 5. I don't much like touch screens [*] - and the touch screens of that period wore out quickly, IIRC - and the hinge on the 5 was even more complicated and liable to fail than that on the 3. So what was nice about the 5? I'm not asking you to justify yourself; I'm genuinely curious! On the subject of Psions, the two common failure modes on the 3: cracked hinge, and leaky backup circuit. By the latter I mean something in the circuitry that remains active when the main battery fails - clock, memory, not much else - starts drawing excessive current, and the machine flattens the backup cell in about a day, whether the main battery is in or not. Does anyone know what causes this? I have two old main boards with this symptom, which I must reverse-engineer. One day... Philip. [*] ... but prefer keyboards. Which is why your original post was so welcome!