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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48SX GREAT!
Message-ID: <6351@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 7 Mar 90 21:01:39 GMT
References: <13675@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <21580005@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <21580005@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM> billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Bill Wickes) writes:
>HP's policy regarding bugs in early releases is (remains) to make the customer
>happy.  If you find that a software bug seriously impairs your use of the
>calculator, you can have it repaired under warranty.  Most people find
>that early release bugs turn out to be a minor problem, and never need to
>have any upgrade.

Not to mention the bugs that are beneficial; the bug in the first 41Cs
that allowed you do STO IND <reg> into program memory comes to mind --
it opened the way to synthetic programming much faster than would
have been otherwise possible. My 41C has the full set of bugs, and I
wasn't about to send it to HP and get them fixed.


 Sean Malloy                                   | "The Crystal Wind is the
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | Storm, and the Storm is Data,
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | and the Data is Life."
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | -- _Emerald Eyes_, D.K. Moran