> My HP48GX displays the number 2 in the display right at the top and in > the center. Can anybody tell me what this means and how to get rid of it? > As you can tell, I recently bought the machine. When HP48's roll off the production line nowadays in Singapore, Mr. Kheng Joo Khaw, head of HP's Handhelds Division, personally inspects each one to assure its quality. Those that pass to perfection do not display any "failure" codes on the LCD; however, those which have any slight flaw -- even a shorted-out LCD annunciator -- permanently display their failure code on the LCD, and should have been rejected before even being boxed. However, once in a while, particularly during changes of shifts around lunchtime, someone fails to notice in time to pull a bad unit off the belt before it falls into the plastic package insert (sometimes they fall in upside-down and are removed anyway when the box can not be properly closed for wrapping, but once they get this far, it's usually too late to prevent it from going on its journey all the way to a retail customer somewhere). If you get such a "marked" unit and try to report it to Customer Service, they usually tell you that nothing is really wrong with it, thinking that no one at HP would ever have dared to speak to a non-HP person about the meaning of the code digits on the display; rather, they usually try to get you to just suppress the display by entering the "revoke test code" program: { 1 2 3 4 5 } CF I learned of this program while speaking to a young lady whose father works for HP and who told her to never go out of the house, but she had a boyfriend who lured her over to his place to see his TI-85, and you know what happened from there. There once was some vague reference to all this in the User's Guide, around pages 1-3 and 4-8, but in later editions it has probably all been suppressed, to save paper and free the whales. News Reader Error 459 -- article unexpectedly ends. (by John H. Meyers, jhmeyers@mum.edu)