In my case, for the time being it makes sense. A large company not to far from me went out of business and liquidated all of there assets. Among them where about a thousand Palms from their employees. I bought the whole lot (for dirt cheap). The majority of them where Palm V's and Vx's (about 600). The rest where from the m1xx series and m5xx series with a handful of original zire's. Of the thousand, about 25% of them are still working, but of the ones not working, by combining them you can get some working ones (may guess about another 25%-35%). For example some work fine but have a broken screen, others don't work, but have a good screen. You take the good screen and put it on the one with a broken screen and you now have a functional Palm. I figured that since I have so many Palms, it is worthwhile to do it correctly and I'll get enough experience to add that to my list of services.