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From: tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Thrown out 48's (Was: Re: My HP48sx Rev E replacement has STICKY keys!)
Message-ID: <1030@voodoo.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 06:09:34 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.171625.1828@jafus.mi.org> <1991Feb19.223641.18988@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Feb19.223641.18988@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott) writes:
>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.

Maybe.  Maybe not.....  Take me, for instance.  I don't have a real NEED
for an HP48, and being married with a couple of kids, I can't justify it
just on hobby principles.  So I will not buy a new one, no matter how
much I want one.  I'll just bide my time and pick one up used sometime.

For the same reason, I just last year found a good enough deal on a 41CV
to be able to get it and not think I was being too calvilier (sp?) with the
family funds.  Yeah, I wanted one since the first 41 came out, but just
couldn't swing it.  "Good things come to those who wait."  (Ya just gotta
hope they come soon enough that ya remember why ya wanted 'em! ;^)

But if HP offered me as a netter a good deal on an early rom model, I'd
jump at the chance.  Like I suggested earlier, mark it no return and
with the understanding that they wouldn't have to expend any energy in
supporting it, and I'd be happy, they'd make a sale they would not otherwise
make, and we'd all live happily ever after ;^)

Now I know there are flaws in that logic; certainly not everyone taking
advantage of an offer like that would have not purchased (gee, how's that
for a doubly negative conditional?), and there would be the netters
clueing in their non-net friends, but hey, its the thought that counts.

At the very least, it is a crime in terms of natural resources to throw
out stuff like slightly out of date computers and calculators when the
public school systems would LOVE to be able to put them in the hands
of the kids.

(Looking puzzled from the top of his soap box, and finally tottering
 off stage),
-- 
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