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From: bob@dolores.Stanford.EDU (Bob Lodenkamper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Thrown out HP's...
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Date: 2 Mar 91 05:50:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM's message of 1 Mar 91 18:49:29 GMT

In article <7360085@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:

   Like I said, if the bugs really have bitten you, and they seriously impact 
   your work, then by all means get the machine replaced.  What I object to is
   the people who haven't been bitten badly by the bugs, and never
   will, and yet they send their calculators in anyway just to get the
   latest ROM Rev.  I don't care if the vendor is HP or TI or Casio,
   anybody sitting on the outside can see that the vendor is getting
   systematically *screwed* by these people.  Most of the postings on
   this subject have been on how to convince HP that you really
   deserve a new calculator.

   Doesn't anybody have any integrity anymore?  If not, then what
   about common sense?  Or have we all turned into a bunch of grabby
   people, anxious to "do it to others before they do it to you?"

Not me! (in response to last rhetorical question above :-) I don't
claim to know whether or not the bugs in my former rev A would have
bent my life seriously out of shape or not (I'm no fortuneteller), but
that's not the main reason why I upgraded to rev E.  The reason is
simply that my previous calculator was the 28C.  I was most displeased
when significantly less than a year after I got the 28C HP introduced
the 28S, which is the 28C done right - i.e. with a useful amount of
memory.  The bloody thing (28S) even cost the same as the C!!  I'm
sure this is an old topic, from before my time on the net, but I
really had thought that since HP was selling the 28C that it wouldn't
be crippled.  I was wrong.  So we have tit for tat, all's even, and
I'm prepared to be most reasonable (and patient!) when HP's next
interesting handheld comes out.

- Bob