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From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Whoops
Summary: Undocumented RAM card feature.
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.190337.25125@csn.org>
Date: 12 Feb 91 19:03:37 GMT
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Picture this scene.  
I am sitting in one of those little one piece desks that is about the 
width of one text book.  Of course I have my notebook, my text book and
my hp48sx.  The prof writes somethint near the bottom of the board that I can't
see, so I take my hand off of my notebook and lean to the left.  

Meanwhile, my notebook starts sliding off to the right and of course my 
calc is on the edge.  I managed to save the notebook but the next sound I 
hear is *CRASH* *clatter clatter rattle*  This is not the sound that I 
was expecting.  It should have just gone *BASH Clunk*.  I look down and 
sure enough, the IR cover is off and my CMT 128K RAM card is lying 
next to the calculator.  

I run merged RAM so that I can do all sorts of nice shit.  Well seeing as how I
had been idly running the Lincoln Labs graphics demo at the time, I was
expecting that everything would be GONE.  

I picked up the calculator and it is saying.

      Please reinsert RAM card 
      and press ON

I did so, and guess what.  NO loss of memory.  I am impressed.  

Is this a RAM card feature or an hp48sx feature and why isn't it 
documented anywhere.  I like it.  

	ian

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