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Subject: Re: RPL constructs
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Date: 18 Oct 90 17:21:30 GMT
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In article <9250@helios.TAMU.EDU-> n233dk@tamuts.tamu.edu (Rick Grevelle) writes:
->
->In article <11423@life.ai.mit.edu> bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) writes:
->
->>  Does HP even care? If nothing else, it's probably just good for
->> their sales and image.
->The mailing list sounds great to me.  Does HP care?... I don't know.. I don't
->think I'd want to find out, at least in a court of law I wouldn't.  Now about
->it being good for their sales image, it wouldn't seem so.  Eventhough this news
->group is read around the world, I'd bet you that were only a very small percent
->of HP users.  For instance, there are 44,000 students enrolled this Fall here 
->at A&M.  I've seen 48s all over, especially within the college of engineering,
->but I personally know of only a couple of individuals who actively read this 
->board.
->
->Rick Grevelle

I think the point here is that it doesn't hurt HP.  And I think that it does
boost sales just a bit.  I have convinced two people to buy 48s based on what I
showed them I could do and on the information that this newsgroup exists.  When
I see the useful information on this machine on this group it increases my
inthusiasm for the product and I actually "sell" calculators for HP.  Two of my
friends bought 48s less than a day after I showed it to each one of them.  I
know 3 other people that are getting information from me in preparation to
selling the calculator.  Some of they stuff that people find impressive is
machine language programs that people have written using this information.  
I know that this sounds roundabout but it sells calculators and isn't that
really what HP wants?   As long as the calculator still interests me I will
continue to recomend it to people that I know and don't know.  

	I have a question too... It seems that we have tracked down the problem
of the screwed up batteries in the hp28 but I couldn't remember that the easy
fix was.  I have a friend that is having probs with his 28 with it losing
memory so I told him what I knew but I don't remember what dimension it was
that was wrong...  What could he stick in there to make it work.  Is it just to
stop the battery from wiggling or it the distance from contact to contact
wrong?  If so then one would have to put something conductive in to fill the
gap.  IF you have a solution to this, please mail me or post as you like.
Thanks.  

	ian

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