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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!uwm.edu!rutgers!uwvax!zazen!doug.cae.wisc.edu!kolstad
  2. From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
  4. Subject: Re: 3 Re: AAA Lithium batteries with the HP-48SX
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec31.185439.9101@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
  6. Date: 1 Jan 93 00:54:39 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec30.025123.2386@schbbs.mot.com> <1992Dec31.174913.8379@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <PHR.92Dec31163028@napa.telebit.com>
  8. Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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  10.  
  11. In article <PHR.92Dec31163028@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
  12. >    They also announced that they're going to mass-market AAAA batteries,
  13. >    which'll be useful.
  14. >
  15. >AAAA cells are already available, just take apart a 9 volt alkaline
  16. >battery.
  17.  
  18. It'll be useful in the sense that engineers will build devices designed to
  19. accept them for the mass markets.  HP isn't going to design a calculator
  20. that requires you to rip apart 9 volts every time the batteries die... :-)
  21.