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From: madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP-48SX Equation Library Card
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.005312.16762@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 90 00:53:12 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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I just got an Equation Library Card, and I like it except for one very
annoying "feature".  Everytime you turn on the calculator, it spends
some time doing something (I guess attaching the library).  (It also
spends some time when you turn the thing off, but that doesn't matter.)
This wouldn't be so bad, if it weren't for the fact that the keyboard
strokes from that time are lost or never read.  I'm used to using my
calculator by hitting the ON key and immediately hitting the numbers
and operations as one continuous stream of keys.  This no longer works.
I now have to wait about 1/2 a second before doing anything.  Very
annoying.  It would be okay if the keyboard queue worked during that
time.

Also, a warning for others: DON'T PLAY THE MINEHUNT GAME.  Don't even
look at it if you value your time.  I thought I had relatively good
willpower when it came to computer games, but I played that darned
game for hours, and I still catch myself doing it all the time.  It's
amazingly addictive for something so simple.

Mark Adler
madler@piglet.caltech.edu