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From: hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dave "bd" Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48 memory scanner
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Date: 5 Mar 90 18:31:58 GMT
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In article <6639@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1246c@prism.gatech.EDU (Warren Furlow) writes:
>The HP-48SX is GREAT!  I think this machine is what the 28 should have been.
>I would have been very disappointed with a fold out design.

Whoa, what an awesome device.  Maryland Book Exchange just got theirs
over the weekend.

I am disappointed with the keyboard layout; unlike Warren, I would
rather have seen a fold-out design.  The new layout is really pushing
the limits of usability, but I think this will simply drive 48 owners
into editing on a PC and downloading code as needed.  Unless somebody
comes up with a serial keyboard...

The expansion cards are actually cards, like midget playing cards, with
a connector running completely across one end.  The salesdweeb was
unable to comment on the future possibility of IL cards and the like.

Dang...where's my credit card?

-dave

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