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Subject: Re: HP-48SX: first impressions
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.031017.5627@cc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Mar 90 03:10:17 GMT
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Reply-To: umapd51@cc.ic.ac.uk (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz)
Organization: Imperial College Computer Center, London, UK
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Summary:Even an HP-35's keys stand out
Keywords:HP48, keys, HP-35

on the keyboard, the bottom two rows of keys touch the surface. The keyboard
is curved, so not all of the keys will touch a flat surface, but all can
be pressed. This did not matter though, as the HP-35, and subsequent
models till the HP-41 and then the series 10 were all turned on with a
sliding switch. All models since then have a 10-minute timeout (and the
HP-28, HP-18 etc are protected by their own case), so there seems to be
little risk of draining the batteries on any HP handheld, unless you
position it so that the ON switch keeps getting pressed. In fact the
older models were more of a risk, since the slide switches did not
return to the off position by themselves. Should we start up a separate
thread on batteries for HP handhelds again - has anuone got an HP48 with
flat batteries yet?
Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz,
Space Physics, Imperial College, London
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