[geeks] hp calculators and hurricanes - was Carly Fiorina ...

[william pointon]

well on top of significant hurricane damage to my house from francis 
this week my dear hp48sx had battery leakage last week and now doesnt 
work - i guess energizer will send me a 49 to replace it - i hope 
everyone else - especially in fla which it looks like will be hit again 
by ivan - is ok - billp

On Friday, Sep 10, 2004, at 00:24 US/Eastern, wa2egp at att.net wrote:

>>> You don't like the HP49G+?
>> All I saw from the HP49 was pictures in advertising material. It 
>> looked
>> like a remote control. A cheap, unreliable plasic thing with rubber 
>> key
>> pad that will fail in at few years. A piece of crap compared to every
>> other HP calculator ever made. A typical result of Fiorina... :-(
>
> Well, I have one and it isn't that bad.  It runs 48 programs
> (that will run on it) a lot faster.  I keys are a bit stiffer than
> my 48 and the display has more contrast but that could be
> from the age of my 48.  My only grips are that they moved the
> enter key,  it looks more like a TI, the screen is not as
>  "protected" as the 48 and you can't run programs
> off of the SD memory card.  The manual is just a quick
> beginner's guide,  I d/l'd an Acrobat manual from their
> website which is a lot more complete.  Still trying to get
> used to it.
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