Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!rutgers!caip.rutgers.edu!froncio From: froncio@caip.rutgers.edu (FRONCIO) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: HP-25's Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 88 21:21:02 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 Hi out there! I know alot of you out there are gonna get mad when you read this but here goes: I and a few people I know have HP-25 calculators (one of, if not THE, finest calculator ever made!) that still fulfill all of our requirements of a good, usable calculator. The problem is the darned battery pack/power supply/whatever-handles-getting- juice-to-the-chips part of it. It seems that no matter how many times we replace the battery pack, the calculator returns to its old state (can't hold a charge, flickers, etc...) within a couple of weeks. Questions: 1) What's wrong? (Obviously seems to be a flaw in an otherwise perfect product...) 2) Does HP still fix them? 3) If so, how much might it cost? If any of you out there know the answers to these questions, we'd sure like to hear from you! advTHANKSance, Andy Froncioni (froncio@caip.rutgers.edu)