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From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Copying ROM cards
Message-ID: <7360064@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 91 15:00:51 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> 2) ROM cards can run as high as $500 (that I've seen so far).  If a company
> is willing to guarantee me that they would Fed-Ex me a new card FREE OF CHARGE
> on the occassion that mine should break (without first receiving the broken
> one), then I would rest easily, but as it is, I have a $500 investment tied
> up in a very small basket that I could easily snap in two.  

Umm...  Is this from the same guy who said:

* If [HP]
* didn't even try to invert a matrix larger than 8x8, they deserve the penalty
* of replacing every flawed calculator.  It is not OUR fault that the entire
* calculator must be replaced.  

So whose fault will it be that your card is broken (stepped on, dropped,
gnawed by wild dogs,...)?  Why, then, would you expect that you be FedEx'ed
a new card, free of charge, by the mfr.?

Seems to me that someone is not living in the real world here.  If you're
afraid of losing something vital that costs you $500, then it's time you 
bought some insurance and used it.  It sounds like you want someone to babysit
your 48 and peripherals for you, for free.  You can't get something for 
nothing in this universe.

Get real.

-- Ray
rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com
(Wow, if you read between the lines, this even applies to ROM copying!)