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Subject: Re: HP-48 Comparison Test
Keywords: Calendar, clock accuracy, bundling software with I/O package
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Date: 18 Mar 90 03:46:41 GMT
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calendar currently used in most of the world it would be a leap year,
and I expect there's an alt.calendars group somewhere to discuss all the
wonderful ways that have been suggested to improve the Gregorian
calendar. More worrying to me is that the HP48 alarm system will only
work for the hundred years beginning on January 1st 1989. Knowing the
quality of HP calculators I might want to give my HP48 to a grandchild
as a souvenir, and they would find the alarms no longer work after the
year 2088. Is there a good reason for this?
I agree with the complaint that a bunch of utility programs are
available only with the I/O kit. In fact, I doubt if they are available
at all except to a few lucky people, because the I/O kits are not yet on
sale.  HP have released enough information to let people put together
their own I/O cables, so why not release the code too? I know of one
reason - they were looking for the reviewers to find bugs - several
enhancements and at least one bug fix have been incorporated into the
versions that are to be shipped.  Still, why not let users have these
programs now?
Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz,
Space Physics, Imperial College, London
BITNET: MIER @ SPVA.PH.IC.AC.UK
Disclaimer: These are not my employer's views, and I claim they are
mine only so long as I am writing this message.
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