Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!hhdist From: TDSTRONG%MTUS5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: RE: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys! Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 00:30:38 GMT Lines: 19 Return-path: <@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:TDSTRONG@MTUS5.BITNET> In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 18 Feb 1991 08:50 CST To: handhelds@gac.edu > >I am scheduled to send my HP48 in to HP for a Rev E upgrade. >After hearing about at least 2 cases of the loss of tactile feedback >on the keyboard, I'm wondering if I should just keep my Rev A. >Does anybody know if HP replaces your calculator with a *NEW* machine, >or do you get someone elses REV A that has been upgraded to a REV E? >I could much easier live with the Rev A "bugs" than I could with a >"mushy" keyboard. Boy.....what a choice! From what I know you get a new machine. The HP48 is glued shut with surface mount devices on its circuit boards. In short there is no way to fix the ROM, you just throw it (the calculator) away. I suppose they might recycle the displays or something but I doubt it. ====================================================================== ___ I__) _ _I _ _ TIM STRONG I \ (_I (_I (_I I MICHIGAN TECH. HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN ======================================================================