Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpwad!druegeme From: druegeme@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM (#Daniel Ruegemer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Sweaty 48s Message-ID: <30870010@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM> Date: 20 Jun 91 06:12:56 GMT References: <285eaca0:3505comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Waldbronn, Germany Lines: 14 >/ hpwad:comp.sys.handhelds / akcs.kevin@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Kevin Jessup) / 3:40 am Jun 19, 1991 / >I have a surveyor friend interested in the 48SX. >I won't loan him mine! I heard that they are not >reliable after sitting in the sun for only a few >minutes. Any truth to this? > I can tell you about my HP28S: I left it somtimes in the car, one time it even ran (it processed a large interpolation). On this day, the sun shone (shine/shone/shunt ??) really hot, in the car it was about 65.C hot. It didn't harm to my 28, even the processed solution was o.k. Daniel