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From: umapd51@sunb.cc.ic.ac.uk (W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz)
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Subject: Re: Is there life after ROM-version D?
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Date: 26 Jul 90 02:28:09 GMT
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Stephen van den Berg asks if there is life after revision D of the
HP48SX. Well, that revision still has one small bug so a revision E is
definitely on the cards. After that, HP would presumably want to wait
till some major problems show up before they produce another revision,
and it may be that no such problems will show up, since the 48 has been
in widespread use for over 3 months now and no serious problems have
been reported for 2 months (or have they?).
An HP49SX seems most unlikely, but look at the posters - the calculator
for the 2000s - in other words it is possible that another model or
models of the HP48 (say an HP48SZ, or an HP48SXII) will be made before
the end of the decade. Don't hold you breath though! The HP48SX itself
was originally called the HP48CS (Customizable Scientific), by the way.
Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz, Space & Atmospheric Physics, Imperial College,
London.
Disclaimer: I do not speak for HP, nor for Imperial College. Even my
HP48SX has a right to disagree with me.