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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth.se!regebro
- From: regebro@stacken.kth.se (Lennart Regebro)
- Subject: Re: World's Toughest Computers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.211322.8918@kth.se>
- Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
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- Organization: Stacken Computer Club, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Nov19.190739.18948@rchland.ibm.com> <BxzED5.B0H@world.std.com> <STEVEV.92Nov20002943@miser.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:13:22 GMT
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- In article <STEVEV.92Nov20002943@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
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- >If you count HP calculators as computers (certainly the recent
- >ones, which come with 32K bytes of memory and expand to 288K,
- >ought to)
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- When I, a couple of years ago, was selling calculators for a living I usually
- showed the durability of HP28 calculators by throwing it on the floor and
- then stepping on the keyboard. I did this 10-20 times with our demo HP28, and
- the keyboard never failed.
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