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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP 32E bugs [Re: HP 35 manuals, anybody got them ?]
Message-ID: <3447@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Sep 90 11:19:14 GMT
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Organization: University of Sussex
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From article <04aY02JO025N01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, by ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn):
> In article <32757@cup.portal.com> sjthomas@cup.portal.com (Stephen J Thomas) writes:
>>   
>> And sort of changing the topic in a message stream, but it is related,
>> Bill Wickes mentioned at the recent Chicago HP user's conference (and
>> can be seen in the Jake Schwartz video tape series!) that the 35 had one
>> bug in its firmware.  Does anybody know what this bug is?
Changing tack again, I once had an HP 32E which used to give Error 9
(error in self test system) quite regularly. HP took it back, stripped
it down & replaced nearly all of it but the bug remained. Does anyone
else know why/how this problem occurred (my 34C seemed to have no such
traumas)?

Nick

"Always ... due to human error" - HAL 9000
-- 
Dr. Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical
& Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND
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