Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bcstec!voodoo!tomm From: tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys! Message-ID: <999@voodoo.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 91 16:44:14 GMT References: Organization: BoGART To You Buddy, Bellevue, WA Lines: 27 In article TDSTRONG%MTUS5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: +> +>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. Gee. If this is true, and since my needs are rather plebeian in comparison to what seems to be the vocal majority in this group, I'd be happy to accept a Revesion 1[BCD] ROM equipped HP48SX clearly stenciled: "UseNet Early ROM Special, No Guarantee, No Return" plus documentation for a modest sum, say $75.00...... -- Tom Mackey (206) 865-6575 tomm@voodoo.boeing.com Boeing Computer Services ....uunet!bcstec!voodoo!tomm M/S 7K-20, P.O. Box 24346, Seattle, WA 98124-0346