Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca.wv.tek.com!flutter!bill From: bill@flutter.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Upgrading/Warranty Card... Message-ID: <9957@orca.wv.tek.com> Date: 26 Jan 91 06:30:28 GMT References: <279f53e9:1765.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> <10460@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@orca.wv.tek.com Organization: Tektronix TV Products Lines: 18 I was told by an HP48 engineer that they were just collecting the defective machines but not trying to repair them. He said it might be worth busting them open for the circuit board, which I think was worth about $65. But, at the moment, they weren't planning on doing that. This was before the upgrade offer, however. They might be recycling them by now. I don't know if the display can be recycled. A lot of the earlier machines had a display defect that would cause a large percentage of them to fail "sometime in the future." For me, that was about 4 months. It was a rev. B. They sent me a rev. E in exchange. Took only a week, too (including Thanksgiving weekend). To my recollection, the case and keyboard couldn't be recycled. -- Bill McFadden Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 500 MS 58-639 Beaverton, OR 97077 bill@videovax.tv.tek.com, {hplabs,uw-beaver,decvax}!tektronix!videovax!bill Phone: (503) 627-6920 "SCUD: Shoots Crooked, Usually Destroyed"