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From: prestonb@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Preston Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: SPEED vs FAST question (HP28S)
Message-ID: <21580004@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:59:21 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>There are othe problems though, in particular that speed mose
>degrades to normal mode under certain (as yet undetermined)
>circumstances, and HP engineers suggest that under particular
>circumstances (low battery?) results might be wrong in fast mode.

The speed reverts to normal when the ON key is pressed.  This is
to allow the system to recover if it locks up because you are
running outside of the speced speed. This is the only protection
you have and you would most likely still get a memory lost if it
does get lost.