Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!hhdist From: TNA32@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (FRINGE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: RE: Thrown out 48's (Was: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKYkeys!) Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 03:34:00 GMT Lines: 18 Return-path: To: handhelds@gac.edu X-VMS-To: IN%"handhelds@gac.edu" By performing what has basically been a recall on the A's (etc), they have kind of admitted that the calculators were defective. By then giving them away, or worse, sellng them, they would really chew up their image. yeah it's kinda a waste to toss em, but what's more of a waste is that they produced them in the first place. THEY KNEW they had lots of bugs, and sold them anyway. In with my A there was an "anomoly" sheet (bug report) that listed all the machines THROUGH the D. Go figure. If they already knew there were bugs in the D, they must have had them in production, why were they still releasing A's? They were trying to get away with users not knowing that there were better versions available. I think that this net actually had something to do with their change in heart. that's my piece. -mike "Bite the wax tadpole...." Mark Banas