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                                                                      EXHIBIT 24
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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
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                               TELXON CORPORATION

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned Directors
of Telxon Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), does hereby make,
constitute and appoint John W. Paxton, Sr., Kenneth A. Cassady, Woody M. McGee
and John W. Castle his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with
full power to act alone without any other and of substitution and
resubstitution, to prepare or cause to be prepared, to execute for and on his
behalf and in his name in his capacity as a Director of the Company, and to
deliver and file or cause to be delivered and filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000, together with any amendments and any
exhibits and other documents in support thereof or supplemental thereto and any
and all other documents, reports and instruments which said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or any of them, may deem necessary to enable the Company to comply
with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules, regulations
and requirements of the Commission pursuant thereto, hereby granting to said
attorneys-in-fact and agents and each of them full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing whatsoever as said attorneys-in-fact and
agents may deem necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the
foregoing as the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity as
aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things which said
attorneys-in-fact and agents may do or cause to be done by virtue of these
presents.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have subscribed this instrument
effective as of May 23, 2000.




         /s/ John H. Cribb, Director           /s/ L. Michael Hone, Director
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         John H. Cribb, Director               L. Michael Hone, Director



         /s/ J. James Gallagher, Director      /s/ Dennis J. Lehr, Director
         ----------------------------          ---------------------------------
         J. James Gallagher, Director          Dennis J. Lehr, Director



         /s/ R. Dave Garwood, Director         /s/ John W. Paxton, Sr., Director
         ----------------------------          ---------------------------------
         R. Dave Garwood, Director             John W. Paxton, Sr., Director



         /s/ Robert A. Goodman, Director       /s/ Raj Reddy, Director
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         Robert A. Goodman, Director           Raj Reddy, Director