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From: wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Thrown out 48's (Was: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys!)
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.223641.18988@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 22:36:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.171625.1828@jafus.mi.org>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney) writes:
> In article <1991Feb19.144528.28579@javelin.es.com> pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
> >TNA32@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (FRINGE) writes:
> >
> >>HP says they just toss the calculators.
> >>They just toss 'em, they don't even recycle the displays.
> >
> >Has anyone been wandering around the Corvallis city dump? ;-)
> 

Apple did a similar thing about a year ago when they dumped 5000 Apple Lisa's
in a landfill and had them buried.  (They weren't that bad :)


If HP gives away or sells the old calcs, they will only hurt their profits
on new calculator sales.

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