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From: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-42S upgrade??
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.173125.4758@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 17:31:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.205911.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca> <48070003@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
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ken@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Kenneth M. Sumrall) writes:

>>I am looking to purchase an HP-42S calculator soon.  Does anyone know
>>if HP has plans to release an upgraded 42S in the near future (re:
>>release of HP-32SII makes HP-32S obsolete).  If they do, I would make
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>>my purchase after the upgraded calculator is released.
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>It is for this precise reason that computer and/or calculator companies
>don't announce products before they are ready for sale.  

I can't resist ;-)  SOME companies may not announce products before
they are ready for sale, but many do.  One need look no further than
Microsoft to see this (say, when *WILL* "Pen Windows" be ready for
sale?).  The PC software industry (as well as other sections) is just
full of this announce-before-it-is-ready stuff.  Go Corp's Pen O/S,
Apple's System 7, WordPerfect for Windows, umpteen versions of OS/2;
the list goes on and on.

						.oO Chris Oo.
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