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From: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: RPN Calculators
Message-ID: <329@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Nov 89 12:35:33 GMT
References: <2148@leah.Albany.Edu> <22400001@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> <1989Nov13.151208.3559@gdt.bath.ac.uk> <4120@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <4120@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	When buying anything, you have to figure (or should that be
>calculate?) in the expected lifetime.  I've still got a HP-33E which I
>bought in, I think, 1979.  I've had to replace the battery pack (about $20,
>and HP still stocked the part 8 or 9 years after I bought the calculator)
>but it still works fine.  How many TI/Casio/Sharp/Whatever calculators do
>you know of that will still be working 10 years later?

Well my casio fx350 is still working - nearly 8 years after I got it.
It has been heavily used - I carried it around in a pocket for 5 years
while at secondary school (nearly equivalent to American high school).
It is still on its 2nd battery. It is still doing excellent service
despite a slightly dogey on/off switch.

- RC

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