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From: delavier@uni2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: ROM upgrades and high prices (can't sleep w/out knowing...)
Message-ID: <543@uni2a.unige.ch>
Date: 28 May 90 11:48:40 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Hello there!

From what I might have dug from the posted postings (?) here, there seems to be 
some concern about what hp is going to do with new ROM upgrades - about a dozen
persons were willing to know, and we are now 13... I *would* like veeeeery much
to get my hands on the baby, but there seems to be quite a few bugging bugs  (?
again). So, I guess many people would appreciate to have some sound from HP  on
this: obviously *some* hp employees read this newsgroup (some even get stupidly
flamed - hey, not by me, yet! :), so....

Also to add a little comment to the hp-gross-over-expanded-pricing-policy
debate, all I have to say is that: you guys from the us stop complaining, *you*
are the lucky ones! You have both Dan Quayle *and* $250-or-so 48SXes! All *we*
get is Kaspar Villiger and all-new-only-for-$500 48SXes...
How, by the way, if any hp people is hearing, what the ... could be the
justification for this price increase? (the first one to cite "translating the
manuals" gets flamed: I bought a 28S about may 1989 or so, and they were
entirely written in English, which, as you may judge from this posting, caused
me some trouble, and as far as I have seen, the 48 sold now have the same
English manuals - with the same bugs)

So, if hp thinks $250 is way too cheap to account for a free ROM upgrade, would
it consider that $500 is expensive enough?

L.