Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!boulder!spot.Colorado.EDU!schram From: schram@news.colorado.edu (Steven Schram) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: spare parts for my HP28 Message-ID: Date: 19 May 91 07:01:47 GMT References: <76870@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Reply-To: schram@spot.Colorado.EDU Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu jung@acsu.buffalo.edu (alexander w jung) writes: >Hi! >I have a problem finding somebody to sell (or give for free) a >spare part for my HP28: the battery cover >It broke when I unloaded my study bag to the street while going >downhill on my bike... >(Btw. this was the only damaged part at the calc at all after it >slid some 50 meters over the street, I was quick enough to >reinsert the batteries to prevent a memory lost) >Every dealer I asked told me that I would have to send in the >calc to get a replacement (two weeks without it -- no way). >So I ask here: is there anybody out there to give me the last >remaining part of his crunched old calc or is there a way to >actually buy one of these wonder plastic parts? Good luck finding a crunched one, you thought you gave yours a spill? My brother had his in his backpack while on his motorcycle on the highway at 60 mph. You might have guessed, it fell out and not a crack to be found, and not a flaw in its use! Great story, I think. -- Steven Schram -- schram@tramp.colorado.edu -- Nietzsche is dead -God