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From: mike@DRD.Com (Mike Rovak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP promo
Summary: Not me
Keywords: patience
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.164900.27595@DRD.Com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 16:49:00 GMT
References: <9008131714.AA20780@hercules.csl.sri.com> <24674@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <32759@cup.portal.com>
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Organization: DRD Corporation
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sjthomas@cup.portal.com (Stephen J Thomas) wrote:
} 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...[other stuff deleted]

I was about to run out (like so many others) and get one when I discovered
this newsgroup.  You guys saved me a lot of heartache.

I won't be buying ANYTHING until I see a ROM revision talked about for a few
months with NO mention of bugs.

HP -- I assume that your marketing folks must have been falling all over
themselves to get this thing out the door.  I am a software developer also,
and I know from experience that this means WATCH OUT - USER BEWARE most of
the time.  Of course, it's a lot easier to replace a diskette than it is
to tear apart a robot-assembled, soldered and sealed machine.

If this kind of thing is expected to happen again, would it be too much
trouble to design the calculator so that the ROM could be interchanged by
the user?  Guys like me wouldn't mind paying for a ROM upgrade to cover
your costs, we'd be too ecstatic about being able to keep our machine
current.

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