All about the Secret Reset Switch hidden inside your HP 48, by Frank Wales, Ray Depew, and Joe Horn. Author: [Frank Wales] Lines: 23 Ray Depew writes: > When the calculator's heart starts spazzing out, you can stick a ThinkJet > repriming tool in this hole to restore the heart's natural rhythm without > amnesia (usually). [see note below. -jkh-] I wasn't aware that amnesia is a common complication of cardiac fibrillation. But that's not important right now... As far as I am concerned, the canonical reset doodah is a straightened-out paper-clip. ThinkJet repriming tool indeed. It'll be on the corporate price list next: HP 82237A HP 48SX de-spazzing tool $9.95 (pack of 3) HP 82237AF HP 48SX de-spazzing tool (Spanish documentation) $9.95 (pack of 3) HP 82238A HP 48SX de-spazzing toolkit (wallet+5 tools) $29.95 Option 001 deletes the tools -$9.95 Option 010 adds mustard (oops, sorry, wrong HP price list) After all, if people will pay $2.50 for a zip-lock bag, who knows what they'll pay for a precision-engineered piece of wire? -- Frank Wales, Grep Limited, [frank@grep.co.uk<->uunet!grep!frank] Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, LEEDS, UK, LS19 7LX. (+44) 532 500303 ---------- Resp: 8 of 8 by rrd at hpfcso.HP.COM Author: [Ray Depew] Lines: 30 I used to keep a straightened-out paper clip taped to the inside of the front panel on my ThinkJet and QuietJet at work. I always wondered why HP didn't include a molded-in holder for a paper clip, since it was extremely useful. I haven't had to defib my Rev.A HP-48SX yet. Either I'm lucky, or careful, or I know all the tricks. I vote for (a) or (b). regards to Frank Ray address & disclaimer on file elsewhere ---------- [All this silliness is about something very serious: an easy way to reset your HP 48SX in case it crashes so badly that ON+C doesn't work. Turn the 48 face down. Use a fingernail to pry the upper left foot out of the calculator. (Don't worry; it isn't glued in place. It'll go back in.) See the little hole in there? It has a little "R" next to it. It stands for "Reset". Press a paper clip ("ThinkJet Repriming Tool"!) into the hole to press the internal Reset Switch. You will regain control of your HP 48. Some newer 48's have the "R" under the left foot but the reset switch under the right foot (don't ask me why!). Although this sounds like an April Fool's joke, it's really true. Go ahead and pull the foot off. Really. Trust me. :-) -- Joseph K. Horn -- Peripheral Vision, Ltd. --