Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!santra!fuug!tut!tukki.jyu.fi!tukki!tt From: tt@euler.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Is there life after ROM-version D? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 90 14:56:48 GMT References: <3135@rwthinf.UUCP> <1990Jul26.022809.20279@cc.ic.ac.uk> <6673.26b0ad3a@jetson.uh.edu> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: honp9@jetson.uh.edu's message of 28 Jul 90 02:08:10 GMT In article <6673.26b0ad3a@jetson.uh.edu> honp9@jetson.uh.edu (Jason Tibbitts/The Blob Shop) writes: > Here's the $25000 question: > > Is it possible to get a ROM upgrade? For $25000 it should be no problem ... > I received my 48SX a month ago and it came with a Rev. C ROM. If the bugs are > REAL minor, then this isn't really important, but I'd like my calculator to be > fully functional. ($300 for a calculator? It'd better be fully functional!) Just a small observation: the more a computer or a calculator costs, the more bugs you should expect in it (as it's likely to be more complex as well). The 48SX has remarkably few bugs, and, what is even more remarkable, they have been reported to the customers promptly and openly -- let's not whine about bugs that don't really matter, lest HP conclude it was a bad idea to tell us about them! (If only HP9000/HP-UX folks were as nice ... sigh.) (I have rev. A. which does have a few bad enough bugs that I'd be willing even to pay a little to get rid of them, but even in rev. B the only one left (as far as I know) that might be of any consequence to me is the INV bug, which I can live with once I know it.) -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)