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From: sjthomas@cup.portal.com (Stephen J Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP promo
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Date: 14 Aug 90 02:00:11 GMT
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I too would like to chime in with my 2 cents worth --- or should I say, $80
worth -- regarding the HP promo which gives away HP SOLVE Equation Library
Cards.  I'm really getting angry with some of HP's dealings with its long-
time users.   Here we rush out to support HP and get the rev A HP48SXs, and
then can't even get a straight answer (if ANY answer at all) about updating
ROMS.   Then we plunk down $80 for the Equation Library card, only to find
out -- once we realize that nobody is going to use more than a few equations
found therein -- that HP is now going to give the d*mn thing away to others
who presumably must be enticed to buy an HP product!

I nearly scratched HP off my list when they ignored the HP75, and then killed
HP-IL.   Now I'm ready to uncap my pen to do it.
  
Signed,
     Pissed in El Paso
     sjthomas@cup.portal.com   (Stephen J Thomas)
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P.S.  I don't intend my angry comments to imply that the card is not a
     wonder of programming.  Eric Vogel & his crew did a great job in
     designing this product, but I just don't see the market.  Why spend
     $80 or more when most of the equation HAVE to be in fields other than
     one's own.  OK, OK, it's for the minehunt game. 
  
sjt