Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!uwslh!lishka From: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys! Message-ID: <1991Feb19.162623.12234@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 16:26:23 GMT References: Organization: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Lines: 20 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. Does anyone know what HP is doing with all those revision A, B, and C machines that are being upgraded to revision E? I sort of assumed that instead of just throwing them away HP might actually be giving a whole bunch away to some "charitable organization" (like a school). It seems a shame to throw away a whole bunch of state-of-the-art calculators with a few software bugs. -- Christopher Lishka 608-262-4485 We carry in our hearts the true country, Wisconsin State Lab. of Hygiene And that cannot be stolen. lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu We follow in the steps of our ancestry, uunet!uwvax!uwslh!lishka And that cannot be broken. -- Midnight Oil