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From: taber@pstjtt.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48SX GREAT!
Message-ID: <936@ryn.esg.dec.com>
Date: 8 Mar 90 13:18:06 GMT
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I got mine yesterday.  Normally I'd have waited, but having independant
reviewers on the net persuaded me to move.  This may become a classic
case-study for marketing people... what a great idea! 

I'm very happy with the complex number handling (compared to the 42S or
*ugh* the 41 with the Advantage module.)  I'm sort of sad about the
production quality of the manuals -- they feel like they were printed on
paper towels from a public restroom. 

I'm ECSTATIC about the return to the single keyboard/vertical
form-factor -- I had serious fears that the new machine would be
horizontal or (*worse*) a clamshell. 

The more I play with it, the more I'm sure I made the right choice in 
skipping the HP28 series...

I don't think the comment about HP moving away from RPN is fair based on 
this machine.  It clearly uses RPN.  The algebraic notation seems to be 
limited to the places it makes sense -- like the Equation Writer.  (It 
wouldn't be much of an equation writer if it required you to re-write 
an equation into RPN.)  But for anyone used to RPN on the '41 or '42 the 
machine works just as expected.

The only problem I had was that mine was delivered with only three of 
the four rubber feet in place... I hope I can clear that up without 
having to send the calculator back. (Which translates to "I hope I can 
get it cleared up without having do something ugly since I'm not about 
to send it back for a stupid rubber foot....)

                >>>==>PStJTT
			Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber

Mail address:  Nahhhhh, you don't want to send me mail....