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Subject: Re: CMT RAM card - deficient?
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Date: 28 Jan 91 09:32:49 GMT
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In article <9958@orca.wv.tek.com> bill@flutter.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) writes:
=+So, does anybody actually have one of these beasties?  I've been
I do, I do.  And judging by the backorders that Educalc had when I went to
order mine, I would say that at LEAST another 150 people have them too.  
I suspect that it is much more.  
=+thinking of getting one, but I'd rather not be a guinea pig.  (Not that
=+I'd want anyone else to be a guinea pig, either.  Some are just more
=+daring.)
Little to do with daring and everything to do with price.. 
=+
=+HP went to great lengths to explain how the cards were expensive
=+because they used selected rams that could run on low voltage, etc.  Is
=+the CMT card as robust as HP implies it needs to be?
From what I have heard, the CMT cards will run on less juice for a longer time.
Apparently the big deal was over, whether the hp48 could detect a low battery
condition as it does with the HP cards.  I don't see that it is a factor at
all.  Barring emergencies, my card will never leave the calculator long enough
to even start drawing power from the Card's battery.  They say that the card
battery should hold it up for something like 2 years.. I sure as hell won't
ever have my card out for 2 years.. ;)  
	As for HP's lengthy claims, I read them too and I don't think I have 
heard from anyone saying, that YES they figured that was about right from their
own experience in the electronics industry.  In fact, most people who know
anything about electronics are saying that the HP cards ARE expensive to make 
but not THAT expensive.  I suspect that what you are seeing is.
CMT 128K SRAM = HP 128K SRAM - HP logo
or should that be 
 HP 128K SRAM 
      HP logo
            -
CMT 128K SRAM
          STO
Whatever.. I woulndn't worry about it.. I have had no problems with my card.
Tonight I just archived my calculator.  Can you believe 860 Kermit packets..
About 60K.. I love my card.. ;)
=+-- 
=+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"


	  ian

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