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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Re: Smith Corona Ram card saga...
Message-ID: <1570029@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 18:30:23 GMT
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In comp.sys.handhelds, e4666881@rick.cs.ubc.ca (richard louie) writes:

>      I have the same problem with my version E 48sx.  I would plug in the
> SC card and then the display would go black and slowly "melt away" - really
> neat but I don't recommend it!  After I remove the card, and try to turn on
> the 48sx, it wouldn't turn on.  I could take out the batteries for 5 min. and
> still nothing.  I have to leave the batteries out for the better part of
> an hour before my 48sx would come back to life.

     If your HP-48SX stops working/freaks out three months from now
(or some arbitrary time in the future), please don't complain about it
here.  It sounds like you were shorting out the calculator, which
*might* have caused some damage.

     Note that I have absolutely no connection with the HP calculator
folks.

     -- Darryl Okahata
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