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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: RPN Calculators
Message-ID: <7748@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 21:52:32 GMT
References: <2148@leah.Albany.Edu> <22400001@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> <1989Nov13.151208.3559@gdt.bath.ac.uk> <4120@phri.UUCP> <1989Nov15.171212.642@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <1989Nov15.171212.642@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
}In article <4120@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
}>How many TI/Casio/Sharp/Whatever calculators do
}>you know of that will still be working 10 years later?

}... I once heard a
}story of an HP salesman who, when a student asked why he should pay
}more for an HP than the comparable TI, threw his HP as hard as
}possible at a concrete wall.  "Now you try it with yours."

Funny -- a TI salesman once gave me the same pitch.  In addition, TI had
the best warranty in the business at the time (~1978).  One person I knew
dropped his TI calculator off the back of his motorcycle at 50 mph.  Then
a car ran over it.  He took the remains to the local TI service center and
they handed him a new one on the spot, no questions asked.

Those were the days ... (-:

-- 
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