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From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: What's available for the 48?
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Date: 6 Aug 90 00:57:59 GMT
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As for an HP48 disk drive, Educalc sells one from Corvallis Micro Technology
which hooks up to the serial port. It uses 3-1/2 inch 1.44 M or 720K disks.
It is ruggedized, works on a wide range of baud rates and can also be hooked
up to a PC. Unfortunately, the thing lists for $785.00 and sells from 
EduCalc for $659.95.
   There is a rumor of another outfit working on a disk drive for the HP48
where their goal is to have it cost no more than the calculator itself....
whether it materializes or not will be interesting.

The Casin48 ROM card is from Preston Brown, who happens to work for HP.

Approximately 20 ROM cards have been "announced" for the HP48, but hardly
that number have shipped so far. Cards are promised in the surveying, games,
electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry and other fields
from a number of third-party outfits. It seems to me that the best way to
find out the status of these is to get on EduCalc's mailing list and 
receive their catalog. The next one will be edition #49, and I suspect it
will be out on or before Labor Day. 
Educalc may be reached at
  27953 Cabot Rd.
  Laguna Niguel,  Calif 92677 USA
  800-677-7001
  714-582-2637

Jake Schwartz