[Hilarious excerpt from a comp.sys.handhelds thread. -jkh-] Author: [Dave Jobusch] Date: Thu Jan 10 1991 Good grief! You mean that the HP Solve Equations Library Card ROM is less than 98.3% full ???!!! What a ripoff !!! Those slackards in Corvallis, anyways... ( Multiple :-)'s if really necessary ) ___ Dave Jobusch / / OSSD/UDL 68K Kernel Project HEWLETT/hp/PACKARD Fort Collins, CO 80525-9599 /__/ dlj@hpfcls.hp.com ---------- Resp: 3 of 3 by frank at grep.co.uk Author: [Frank Wales] Date: Sun Jan 13 1991 09:10 Lines: 19 That shows just how much you know about calculator technology. As any old-time HP owner will tell you, in order to make something uneraseable, you need to snip its corner off. If you were to crack open your Equation Library card and examine the actual memory chips, you'd see that the top-left corners are missing. In the old days, this was an unavailable part of the storage area, but technology improves, and so today one has the choice of 100% usage, or write-protection and 98% usage (+/-1%, dependent on the width of one's scissors). [Note: snipping the corners off memory chips may void your warranty and, if performed in the presence of highly-skilled engineers, may cause them to laugh and poke fun at you. That will show you just how much they know.] -- Frank Wales, Grep Limited, [frank@grep.co.uk<->uunet!grep!frank] Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, LEEDS, UK, LS19 7LX. (+44) 532 500303 ["Anyone who uses HP cards isn't playing with a full deck." -jkh-]