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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 48SX ROM Versions & SYSEVALs
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Date: 30 Jun 90 02:29:18 GMT
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I remember when I was a math student, and money was hard to come by.  I
still thought nothing of earning $1000 and buying an HP-75C which gave
me quite an education in itself.  I also earned $2000 and bought a
Macintosh in 1984 when they first came out, when I was still a student.
Now that I am an engineer at a Real Life company, and I earn less than
six figures I can assure you, I think that the HP-48SX is a very
reasonable machine for the money.  HP is not making lots of money on it
either, I can assure you, as the cost for a team of software developers
is not cheap like the hardware is.

Before you go flaming the net and HP, get more education, get a job at a
Real World company, and I think you will understand why things are the
way they are.  Not that they are the best, I grant you, but all things
considered, the HP-48SX took a lot of individual committment from
engineers that cared about making a great product.  

Dan Allen
Apple Computer