Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!rrd From: rrd@hpfinote.HP.COM (Ray Depew x2419) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP-48 Cases Message-ID: <19080013@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 28 Sep 90 17:10:46 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 30 Story time! > ... The net result is a VERY padded > protection for the 48. I have never tried it, but I would be willing to > bet that you could drop the case/calculator from a height of 4 or 5 ft > without hurting anything. Once, when I worked at HP Corvallis, I was in Lab Stock getting something, and I heard the sound of a calculator crashing to the floor behind me. I cringed and turned around to see who had just lost their Pride and Joy, and watched with horror as a Calculator R&D engineer picked a prototype HP48SX off the floor. He punched some buttons, wrote something down in his lab notebook and DROPPED IT AGAIN! ON PURPOSE! I was horrified, and made noises t that effect. He just grinned and went on with what he was doing. I noticed that he was standing next to a door, and the doorframe had numbers and tic marks scratched into the paint at regular intervals. I also noticed that he was dropping the thing from heights up to 2 meters, holding the 48 in various attitudes so it hit the floor face-down, on one corner, et cetera. True story. KIDS: Don't try this at home! DON'T! I told you not to! Happy weekend, all. Regards Ray Depew HP Colorado IC Division rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com