Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!nprdc!malloy From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP machine bugs Message-ID: <6413@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Date: 12 Mar 90 16:33:15 GMT References: <13675@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <21580005@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM> <6351@skinner.nprdc.arpa> <27751@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 28 In article <27751@cup.portal.com> Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) writes: >Sean Malloy reminds Bill Wickes not to forget the BENEFICIAL bugs in HP >products such as the bugs in the early HP41C's. >Sean, how can Bill forget them? He is the "Godfather" of HP41 Synthetic >Programming! The followup posting I made was not directed to Bill Wickes, but to the readers of the newsgroup as a whole, some of whom may not have owned an HP-41 back in the early days of using the bugs to dig into the internals of the machine. HP doesn't get _all_ of its sales from upgrades by existing customers (although it certainly has kept me: HP-25 -> HP-41C -> HP-28C -> HP-28S -> HP48SX). There are undoubtedly lots of people who never read the PPC Journal articles on the bugs and internals of the HP-41C, or who never bought the PPC ROM and read its manual, or read the other books on synthetic programming on the HP-41C. Had I intended to remind Bill of the beneficial bugs, I would have used the R)eply function in rn. @BEGIN(smiley) Obviously, you believe that I have no concern over wasting the net's bandwidth, and so would _post_ a message intended for only one person. @END(smiley) Sean Malloy | ". . . They always have an air Navy Personnel Research & Development Center | of cheap melodrama about them." San Diego, CA 92152-6800 | "You will find, my dear, that malloy@nprdc.navy.mil | _true_ melodrama _never_ comes | cheap."