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From: sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Melting 48 Display
Message-ID: <9156@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 21:27:50 GMT
References: <9095@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <9095@helios.TAMU.EDU> n233dk@tamuts.tamu.edu (Rick Grevelle) writes:
>
>I was hoping someone, perhaps at HP, could tell me what in the world happens
>to the display when the following key strokes are executed?  It looks quite
>disturbing, but seems to have no ill consequences; I've always believed that
>in order to destroy my calculator, it would have to be done in ways that are
>not readily available through user keys.
>
>Rick Grevelle
>

It seems appropriate to relate a similar encounter I had recently with my
48SX involving a melting screen...  However, I didn't do it through the
user keys.  Instead, I dropped mine in a sink full of water  :-0
I pulled it out, and the screen appeared to be dripping blue stuff (you 
know, like those sand painting things?)  Looked pretty neato.  Then the
48SX started buzzing and whirring, so I decided it was about time to take
out my RAM card and EQLIB card, and perhaps the batteries as well.

What great fun--don't try this at home!!

The next day I casually sidled over to one of the 48's engineers and asked
him if they had ever tried a submerge test...  ;-)  Got a blank look out of
him, until I displayed my new form of modern art--an HP-48 etch-a-sketch.

Scott.