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From: daniel@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (The Amazing Daniel Winker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Invigilators Beware (TV Remote Signals Anyway?)
Keywords: HP-48SX, calculators, portable computers, handhelds, HP
Message-ID: <8685@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 90 00:02:55 GMT
Reply-To: daniel@rosevax.UUCP (The Amazing Daniel Winker)
Distribution: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.hp
Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <6723@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1246c@prism.gatech.EDU (Warren Furlow) writes:
>I thought of this also and tested it with my HP-48 and my friends HP-48.
>They would not work past about three inchs.  I wonder if HP did this on
>purpose?  I will really get excited about HP IR when it can generate TV
>remote signals...
>
>Warren Furlow

I called "Calculator Support" at HP (they were very busy today,
imagine), and the guy there told me about how they're only rated to
transmit 2 inches to another HP-48.  But, what's to say that they're
not just built to be weak on the receiving end.  Maybe they transmit
just fine and COULD do the remote signals stuff.

Just a thought.