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- From: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: The fragile HP 95LX?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.132629.11724@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:26:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.043823.14686@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <1992Sep4.043823.14686@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>,
- ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples) writes:
-
- >Unfortunately, the local HP agents were not prepared to lend a unit.
- >Their reason? "These machines are too small and fragile to lend for
- >testing."!!!
-
- There must be some misunderstanding. Perhaps those HP people had been
- informed that the units were too valuable and in too much demand to lend
- (they're selling fast), and they misunderstood the reason to be
- fragility. Or maybe they were told they units are too small to lend,
- and they figured that meant fragility when it really meant too easy to
- lose or walk off with.
-
- My HP-95 has shown itself to be of the same sturdy construction that I
- expect from all HP products. I have dropped it five feet onto a
- concrete parking lot, and it was just fine, with a couple of very minor
- scratches. (I tried to show these "war wounds" to somebody the other
- day, but they were hard to see without bright light.) I dropped it
- again yesterday onto a tile floor; the battery cover and batteries came
- out, but it was still fine -- not even any memory loss.
-
-
- -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
- "Always mount a scratch monkey."
- edp@alien.enet.dec.com
-