Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!princeton!phoenix!woodhams From: woodhams@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Michael Woodhams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys! Message-ID: <6406@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 19 Feb 91 18:46:30 GMT References: Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University Observatory Lines: 14 In article TNA32@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (FRINGE) writes: >HP says they just toss the calculators. There is no way to get the case open, >it snaps shut when they build them with 48 (i think that was the number) little >snap clamps. The keyboard is actually part fo the case (the shole top half of >the calculator is one peice) They just toss 'em, they don't even recycle the >displays. This seems an extreemly strange way to design a $300 calculator. Can anyone at HP give an explanation why it was done like this, particularly as the need to replace ROMs was one which could have been forseen? Since they are just going to throw away my rev A 48 when I send it in for replacement with a rev E, would it be OK if I broke it open first to have a look at the insides, and then sent the pieces in a bag?