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From: daver@ECE.ORST.EDU (Dave Rabinowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP promo
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Date: 15 Aug 90 20:41:28 GMT
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In article <9008131714.AA20780@hercules.csl.sri.com> R3DLB%AKRONVM@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (David Bartlett) writes:
>If I had known about a promo, I would have held off buying one

This kind of posting occurs every time HP introduces anything new.  For
example, when the 28S was introduced there was a flurry of complaints by people
who had recently purchased a 28C, and similarly in many other cases.  HP
learned a hard lesson many years ago when it first introduced the Series E
calculators (3xE).  Up to that time the Woodstock calculators (2x) were selling
well but as soon as the new series was announced sales of those calculators 
dried up.  Unfortunately, a problem with a vendor of a key component prevented
HP from shipping the new calculators for almost a year, and the calculator
division lost millions of dollars.  The same situation, announcing a product
before it could be shipped, put the Osborne Computer Company out of business.

The one thing you can be sure of is that if you wait something new will come
out.  You have to decide whether the thing you're planning to purchase is worth
the cost to you today, and if it is then buy it.  Otherwise you'll never buy
anything.