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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48SX Remarks
Message-ID: <1990Mar8.030341.22175@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 03:03:41 GMT
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	I havn't been so breathless about a calculator since I bought my
trusty HP-34C about, I guess, 10 years ago.  Numeric integration and function
solving in a hand calculator!?  I sort of got away from engineering soon
after that and was only vaguely aware of the 41 series and pretty much
completely missed the 27/28 series.  I guess I've been away from it all for
too long.  I just recently dropped into comp.sys.handhelds, just in time to
get my socks knocked off with the 48SX announcement.  I don't know where to
begin being amazed!  I guess the idea of my hand calculator talking kermit
pretty much tops my list in the getting-blown-away department.  I gotta get
one.  I guess about the only question left to ask is "does it do windows?"
X-windows, I mean.  Hey, if it has a serial port, you can run SLIP on it,
right?  Can you write an ANSI terminal emulator for it?  Sounds like it could
double as a diag terminal in the field.

In <21580008@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM> billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Bill Wickes) writes:
> The HP 48 comes with a padded brushed nylon case; that, plus the quick
> reference guide in its designated slot provides sufficient protection for
> the keyboard and display.

	If my 34C is any indication of how HP builds calculators, "sufficient
protection" should consist of not running it over with anything larger than a
Volkswagon, with or without a case.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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