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- From: mnb@mira.ca.boeing.com (Mike Burr)
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: 3 Re: AAA Lithium batteries with the HP-48SX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.202010.2757@voodoo.ca.boeing.com>
- Sender: news@voodoo.ca.boeing.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: BoGART Graphics Development
- References: <1992Dec30.025123.2386@schbbs.mot.com> <115340001@hpldsla.sid.hp.co <2b500d1d.2539.6comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:20:10 GMT
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- In article <2b500d1d.2539.6comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> akcs.jwtrav@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (John Wettroth) writes:
- >>what good would -40c batteries do in a calc with lcd...
- >Good point Steve. I design a lot of military equipment with LCD's. You
- >can design LCD's that work at such temps but the 48 display would
- >probably go away at zero c or so. I'll modify my last post to say that
- >they are totally useless.
-
- Wait a minute, not so fast. I found the information about the batteries
- quite informative. Isn't is possible that they could be useful if one
- were using their calculator as an unattended data collector or control
- device in a cold environment? Who says you're _always_ interested in
- looking at the display?
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- Michael Burr Boeing Computer Services, Bellevue WA
- Email:mnb@voodoo.ca.boeing.com
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