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- Subject: Re: Engraving an HP48
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- From: omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler)
- Date: 27 DEC 92 18:37:31
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- In article <Bzs1r8.I48@cs.dal.ca>, sweet@ug.cs.dal.ca (garth r sweet) writes...
- >
- > I recently tried to get my name and SIN number engraved on my HP48
- >figuring to make it at least slightly more secure, but when I tried the
- >key houses and engraving shops kept turning me away, saving that most
- >plastics will melt when they try to engrave it, hence they won't even try.
- >Has anyone else had this problem? How do you mark your calculators, or do
- >you, I figure most people are like me in that after they shell hundreds
- >of dollars for these supper calcs, they like to put thier name on them.
- >Maybe I just have to find the right shop.
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- I had the same problem. I finally went to a trophy shop and told them
- that I would not hold them liable if something happened to the calc.
- They engraved my name on the metal face plate right above where it says
- "Scientific Expandable". Looks great - no problems at all.
-
- Oscar Fowler
- Computing from sunny Tucson, Arizona
- omf@hacks.arizona.edu
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