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From: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Thrown out 48's (Was: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys!)
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.154241.11867@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 15:42:41 GMT
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wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott) writes:

>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 :)

How sad....

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

Not if they gave the Rev [ABC] hp48's to those that could not afford
them in the first place...say, a public school in an poor neighborhood
or some place similar.  Granted, giving away cheap calculators to
those that could afford them would hurt profits, but there are others
who would benefit from them.

						.oO Chris Oo.
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