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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: unpostable sex48pos
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.175732.15674@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 22:57:31 GMT
- References: <23310C@erik.naggum.no> <MHEISKAN.92Aug19051417@vipunen.hut.fi> <23311H@erik.naggum.no>
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- In article <23311H@erik.naggum.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
- >
- >The '48 has been very carefully programmed by HP so it wouldn't crash no
- >matter what, and I really appreciate this aspect of the machine. Unlike
- >Microsoft and PC's and their non-quality ilk in general, I mean.
-
- Yes, the 48 is carefully programmed... you _do_ remember ROM revision
- A, right? :-) Send over a 0 byte file, and you toast the 48's memory? :-)
- A very common programming error, but even the Great Gods at HP weren't
- perfect. :-) (And if you really wanted to, we could discuss a few "anomalies"
- of the hardware, but far fewer people than the very few who were bitten by
- the 0 byte transfer bug would care about those...) :-)
-
- (Not that I'm one to pick nits... we could talk about the 50A computer
- controlled power supply that I built that went a little haywire one day and
- tried to start itself on fire... :-) )
-