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Subject: Re: Genius on Palm / Richard Lang the return

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:59:16 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 12:00:12, Ian Osgood wrote:

>On February 09, 2000 at 23:11:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>I only said this because my engine is in PalmChess and I get royalties from it.
>>I also own a Palm. There is something wrong with it which causes it to eat a set
>>of batteries in about 1.5 weeks. I got tired of constantly feeding it batteries,
>>so it has been sitting unused for several months. I liked it when it was
>>working. Perhaps I should find the original packaging and return it...
>>
>>-Tom
>
>Do you leave your Palm in the cradle?  There is a known problem with the PalmIII
>cradles: the Palm leaks current just from sitting in the cradle, which will
>eventually drain the battery.
>
>Port Stobor to the Palm!  Its currently a bigger market than WinCE.  I'd buy
>it...
>
>Ian

Interesting! I should have posted about this problem much earlier. I might have
saved a lot of money on batteries.

A friend of mine is working on a Palm interface for Stobor. I don't know when
it'll be done--he has a full time job at Quantum and I'm busy with classes.
Maybe a few months...

-Tom



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