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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: another battery drainage question...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.200451.12829@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 01:04:50 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.184424.12250@hubcap.clemson.edu> <TIM.92Jul24155209@nijinsky.ipac.caltech.edu> <1992Jul25.235416.2942@utagraph.uta.edu>
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <1992Jul25.235416.2942@utagraph.uta.edu> b645zjo@utarlg.uta.edu (Rick Homard) writes:
- >In article <TIM.92Jul24155209@nijinsky.ipac.caltech.edu>, tim@nijinsky.ipac.caltech.edu (Tim Conrow) writes...
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- [...about being annoyed by the several second wait that occurs when turning the
- 48 on...]
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- >Is your time that precious that you cannot wait two seconds?
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- If I'm balacing my checkbook, I agree with Rick. It is.
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- >Either you:
- >
- >(a) have too many activities to do in one day and need to slow down, or
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- Yes, but slowing down isn't really an option.
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- >(b) need to stop being so damned impatient.
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- Never. :-)
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- I solved my problem my buying a 32S II. Nice and slick... the newer ones
- do fractions correctly, and have a faster solver to boot.
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- ---Joel Kolstad
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