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From: JMFITZGE@SBCCVM (John Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: Help my 48 is going beserk!!
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Date: 3 Dec 90 18:19:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 2 Dec 1990 13:50 CST
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     Hello all,

       I have 3 HP48SX's but, by accident, I flushed their receipts down
    the toilet...hee hee, just kidding! It is in light of Rob Prior's
    response to the fellow who's HP is going wacko (T.M.) that I write
    this. I am interested in some sort of auto-program that will excecute
    each time the HP48 is turned on. My original intention was to produce
    a beautiful digitized picture of your's truely on the screen each time
    I turned the thing on, but I figure, a password program could also be
    incorperated here. Any ideers? As for HP waki-ness, last week, I
    mistakenly pressed the memory clear sequence (don't ask!), and chose
    to restore memory (25kB worth). After about 1.5 hours, the HP was still
    attempting to restore memory, and considering that I had all my MEM
    archived on disk, I tried a systems halt. Nothing happened. I then
    removed the batteries for about 30 seconds, and when I replaced them
    the HP's screen was filled with crap. I almost lost it! All I could think
    about was going 2 weeks with my HP taking a holiday at Corvailis ( or
    whereever! ). I then removed the batteries for about half an hour,
    figuring that whatever was wrong, it would stop happening once the
    internal battery drained. Lo & behold, it stoped, and the HP went back
    to normal. As an account, the clock was also reset back to Jan 1, 1989.

      Moral: If all elase fails, remove the batteries for a while.

                           John M.R. Fitzgerald
                           Department of Engineering Science
                           SUNY Stony Brook, NY
                           JMFITZGE@SBCCVM.Bitnet