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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
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Subject: Re: RFD: comp.sys.handhelds.hp48
Summary: let's do comp.sys.calculators and comp.sys.palmtops ...
Keywords: comp.sys.calculators comp.sys.palmtops
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Date: 19 May 91 07:35:54 GMT
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In article <1991May15.170626.9508@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes:
>Let me amend (2).  Someone (sorry for the lack of acknowledgement) suggested:
>
>comp.sys.palmtops
>comp.sys.calculators
>
>I support this.  How many others do?

Definitely.  Me too.  (Actually, I may be the Someone from above -- I had seen
a suggestion for comp.sys.handhelds.calcs and comp.sys.handhelds.palmtops from
(Robert L. Dahlen - U. of Denver USA=) and liked it but thought that it made
much more sense to drop the handhelds portion from each....)

>There are those of us interested in calculators and those interested in
>palmtops.  I believe the comp.sys.palmtops/comp.sys.calculators split will
>solve the objections to HP-48 traffic while pleasing Portfolio, BOSS, Wizard,
>Poquet, etc., fans.

Yes.  Exactly what I said before.  I also agree with others that a moderated,
automatically-archived sources-and-binaries group would be very nice for HP48SX
stuff.  I hate having to worry whether archives are up to date and whether I
should save the posted code myself....

Note that I have several HP calculators, not all of them 48SXs.  I am interested
however in _all_ HP calculator information.  (I would love to have one of the
old classics someday, like a 34....)  I am also very much interested in stuff
about _other_ brand calculators.  (Although, unless things change drastically, I
would probably not _buy_ one...!  ;-)  )  I can't imagine my being interested in
palmtops at all in the forseeable future.  (Although I _can_ imagine others be-
ing so interested now....)

>------
>Tom Conte	  Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
> conte@uiuc.edu   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
>  Fast cars, fast women, fast computers

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