Any former Psion 5 owners out there?

:=). I;'ve balanced my 95LX on top of a set of boards in a cardcage on occasions. It's great for those 3rd-party Unibus and Qbus controllers which have a serial port to configure them, for running diagnositcs on RA82 drives, and things like that. I also use it to trasfer files to my EPROM programmer (which has a serial interface) if I want to use the programmer on my bench away from my PC. And for transfering files between my PC (e.g. to up/download them from the net) and a classic machine without running a long cable between them. Kermit the file to the HP palmtop and then kermit/whatever it to the classic machine. I musrt admit I find the palmtop keyboard too small for typing long documents, but it sure is handy for making notes at the bench. And I can incldue LaTeX formatting if I want to. Indeed. It's one reason I moan -- a lot -- about the USB interface on some modern HP calcualtors. It's a slave only, intended to link the calculator to a larger machine for backing it up. The problem is, it means the calculator can't be used as the host, to control other devices. Things like the 48 series had an RS232 port, which, while it wasnormally used to link the calculator to a PC, could also be used to control RS232-interfaced devices. And of course on the older machines with HPIL, you could add an HPIB translator and the calculator could act as the controller on an HPIB bus (I speak from experience here, I normally test HPIB devices using my HP71B as a controller). I, and I suspect many others here, though do not use my desktop machine for the conventioaal purposes. I have no use for apointments books, large databases, and things like that. Sure. There are plenty of languages that can be run on it. But there is nothing built-in -tony