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From: hunt@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: RPN Calculators
Message-ID: <20095@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 89 06:23:30 GMT
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In article <ME.89Nov23181204@karl.pcs.com> me@karl.pcs.com (Michael Elbel) writes:
>works. Even though my friend refuses to switch that thing off (he has it 
>mounted on the printer, so it doesn't use batteries) it looks like it will
>last another 10 to 15 years.
My brothers HP35 is still running, but he started to find it hard
to get chargers and packs, so it sits unused now.  My old 45 is
fine, being used by my other brother, and I now have a 41C.  I
count myself lucky to have never learned Algeblech notation.

>But still, i prefere HP calculators. My HP 41 flew once through half of the
>classroom (why is a long story :-) ). All that broke was the battery pack,
>I had to resolder the accumulators. I'm looking forward to give it to one of
>my grandchildren, when I'm old and tired :-).
My 41 went through worse, I jumped over a fence, and landed in a
puddle, and it popped out of my pack.  I didn't notice for ten
minutes and went back to find it flooded.  If I had taken it
apart and dried it out it would have been fine, but NNOOOOOOOO!!!!
It was still under warranty, so I wrapped it up and shipped it to
HP service.  They shipped it back WITHOUT EVEN OPENING IT!  So I
took it apart, and replaced the little rubber inter board
communication carrier, that had corroded, with wires delicately
soldered to the contact points.  30 or so I think, in two 1 inch
long rows less than a quarter of an inch apart.  I then folded it
back together and it has run perfectly ever since, 4 years!!!

On another note, doesn't anybody miss those real leather carriers
that came with the early ones, now they give you plastic.  I
don't put it on my belt anymore, but it is still a better
carrier.  Why did they get cheap carriers for the top of the line
calculator??  Others have asked where I got mine, so they are
wanted.  Does anybody still make them?  Original supplier???

jim hunt@ernie.Berkeley.EDU	H&H Enterprises (1 employee)
These ARE the bosses opinions, I AM the * boss!!!
grad UCB, MS EE/CS, May 90, resume on request.


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