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- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- Message-ID: <C05oEw.7K0@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:30:31 GMT
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- anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
- : In article <PHR.92Dec30222224@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- :
- : >1. Remember the original post said ALL CURRICULA. This includes art,
- : >music, history, literature, etc. as well as engineering. Computers
- : >are becoming important in all these fields--for text formatting
- : >if nothing else--but machines like the HP-48 (and even 95LX) are
- : >mostly useless in all nontechnical fields. (Possible exceptions
- : >are business, economics, etc.).
- :
- : >A 48 seems like a fun toy and I'd buy one if someone offered me one
- : >cheap enough, but I feel it is a disservice to most students to
- : >suggest that a real computer is not a better investment.
- :
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- I own a SPARC II, what you would consider a serious computer, as well as
- a DECStation 5000 and they are great machines and do what I want - alas
- they are not portable. The portable 'computer' of my choice is the HP48SX.
-
- Not only does it contain the EE formulas I use most, I keep my appointment,
- flight schedules on trips, address/telphone book, expense reports and quick
- notes on an HP48SX equipped with 2 128K RAM cards. It is the most portable
- and flexible tool I have. Agreed, I can't type a report on it but it goes
- everywhere I go.
-
- With it's serial interface I use a XView based interface to transfer
- appointments, etc from the SUN to the HP, but even updating information
- in the field via the keypad is acceptable.
-
- The HP48SX is much more than a very sophisticated calculator.
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- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
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