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From: billw@hpcvra.HP.COM (Bill Wickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Warning to HP-28S Owners
Message-ID: <5040009@hpcvra.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 88 18:38:18 GMT
References: <27924.1988Jun6.17:58:04@mill.me.toronto.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Davin, it sounds to me like the foam strips in the battery compartment
of your 28S were installed incorrectly.  If the batteries don't come out
with maybe a little tapping on your hand (don't worry, the calculator can
take it), then I recommend that you send the calc back to HP and
make them do it right.  I know that is painful, but their turnaround
is very fast.

The foam is in there to keep the batteries from jiggling around, which
seems to be the cause of the memory loss problem that occasionally
affected HP-28C's.

Regarding the 28 books--"HP-28 Insights" is fantastic (well, yes, I
wrote it).  See the response I posted to the note "HP 28 books not
available...".