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From: dave@bgtys6.uucp (Dave Hubert)
Subject: Re: Problems with Smith-Corona 32K Ram Cards
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.205253.6415@bigsur.uucp>
Keywords: 32K Ram No Work
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar26.163602.4668@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 20:52:53 GMT

In article <1991Mar26.163602.4668@watdragon.waterloo.edu> esutherland@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Eric Sutherland) writes:
>	I went down to the local Sear's outlet and asked the sales-person
>if I could try the Smith-Corona 32K card (S75531) in my HP48sx REV E.
>He said sure, and after fitting the battery in the card (the correct way) I
>put the card in my 48 (it was off) and turned it on. The screen went completely
>black and then did an interesting fade effect (It looked a lot like the display
>was disintigrating from the outside in). The friendly sales-person allowed me
>to try the other card they had in stock and it produced the exact same effect.
>
>	Has Anyone else tried these cards and had them fail?(I saw one person
>in Ottawa mention that he has two). Did I do something wrong? I really would
>rather pay $35 CDN for a 32K card than $100 CDN for an HP ram card. Please
>email any information you might have.
>					Thanks
>--
>esutherland@trillium.waterloo.edu
>
>What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind.  Or not to have a mind
>at all.  How true that is.

Hey! A fellow mathie??

Hmmm.  Mine's a REV D.  Try replacing the batteries in your calc, or try new
batteries in the card.  I wonder how long the card has been on the shelf at Sears?
Or try doing the battery test on your calculator.

I'll be back in waterloo in a month + 1/2, and I could let you try my ram cards in 
your calc and see what effect that produces.  I am curious as to what the effect 
is a result of.

-Dave.