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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: RESET button on HP-48SX
Message-ID: <9119@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Oct 90 20:18:21 GMT
References: <9010141416.AA15689@cd.chalmers.se>
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <9010141416.AA15689@cd.chalmers.se> erikmb@CD.CHALMERS.SE (Erik Bryntse) writes:

>I have discovered a use of this button. I was playing around in the memory 
>scanner and executed (pressing EVAL) a subroutine of the OFF command. And the 
>calculator turned off alright, BUT when I pressed the ON button to turn it on 
>again nothing happened. It was dead! When I turned it upside down to take out 
>the batteries (that seemed the only thing to do), I remembered the little hole 
>with the mysterious button and tried it. Nothing happened. I tried the ON 
>button again, and voila! the LCD lighted up.
>
>Of course the memory was empty, but that is ALWAYS to be expected when you
>play around with your HP!

I had better luck:  after accidentally hitting 'poke' instead of 'find', my
  HP went comatose.  on-c wouldn't bring it back, nor would on-a-f.  So
  I pressed the reset button (I had just read about it that day)  and 
  voila! A living hp.  BUT my memory was intact!  Joy!  

I think I'll try the button, in the future, *before* on-a-f, if it's even
  possible to save memory. 

>Erik Bryntse

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