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From: ahernsd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dynastar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP Announces New Calculator!
Message-ID: <9390@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 07:11:37 GMT
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In <1991Apr2.130722.16548@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kenr@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Ken Rawlings) writes:
>>Well, the subject line isn't _quite_ accurate.  They haven't announced
>>it yet (officially), but there is a new calculator to replace the 48sx.
>>This is not the new 95lx (Jaguar), which is to be dos compatible, have
>>a lotus spreadsheet, etc., but rather a _new_ handheld.
>>
>>Oh, and by the way, Happy April Fools Day... :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
>	Wow, I just realized what a total calculator geek I am(and a 
>gullible one at that). By the time I was halfway through this message, I 
>was trying to figure out how to sell my 48SX and come up with the money
>to buy this puppy(who needs college anyway!)... Sad.. Very Sad...

SAME HERE!  My roommate and I were staring open mouthed at the screen
as I read off the announcement of the new calculator.  I was frantically
trying to find a way to sell off this HP48sx before other people found
out about the NEW HP!  I was even going to go so far as to sell it to 
my little brother in high school!

Excellent Joke!  This has got to be the best April Fools joke
I have seen or heard this year!

The suggested additions to the calculator were very interesting, because
I have a 3-d grapher AND vector with variable/equation programs in the
48sx right now.  I was just drooling over them being built in!

(BTW, about the LCD screens above the keys, check out the top-of-the-line
 JVC receiver's unified remote.  LCD touchscreen!  Talk about $$$!)
-- 
Sean Ahern ----------- Purdue University --------- ahernsd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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