Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!stevev From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP48 w/o batteries Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 14:21:43 GMT References: <1991Apr18.052937.7060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@rsg1.er.usgs.gov Followup-To: comp.sys.handhelds Organization: University of Oregon Chemistry Stores Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: creiman@ncsa.uiuc.edu's message of 18 Apr 91 05: 29:37 GMT In article <1991Apr18.052937.7060@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> creiman@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Charlie Reiman) writes: Does anyone know how long the HP48's memory remains intact with the batteries out? The manuals recommend that you change batteries within two minutes to avoid memory loss. I only ask because one of the guys/dudes/hombres I live with recently took the professional engineer's exam (something like that). They were allowed as many books as they could carry and a calculator. The only trick was that you had to pull the batteries out of the calculator once to clear the memory. As we all know, this doesn't do diddly to an HP, unless you leave them out for XX time. Ha! Ha! Ha! Even if they made him take the batteries out for more than two minutes, what do they do if he has a Solve Equation library card and a freed 128K RAM card with all kinds of things stored in it? Clearly the professional engineer examiners aren't keeping up with modern technology. And if he can take all the books he can carry, he could have far more stored in those than he could ever have in a fully-loaded HP-48. -- Steve VanDevender stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu "Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population. Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."