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In article <10...@crash.cts.com> mal...@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) writes:
>In article <8255@c3pe.UUCP> charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) writes:
>>In article <240@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>>>  Salesman takes out a cartridge and holds it up. "These units are shock
>>>resistant," he says, and scales it across the room like a frisbee.

>>Is what I heard in college true,
>>that Hewlett-Packard used to demo their calculators this way?

Yup. I nearly got a heart attack when the sales guy said "and then you
can do THIS", and dropped the HP-25 to the floor, took it up, and
continued the demo.  Since this was here in Stockholm, Sweden, I
assume that stunt was part of some standard demo song-and-dance that
HP programmed their salespersons with :-)

Nice thing, the HP-25. Wrote My First Program on it.
Could not afford one, but the HP sales brochure explained all its
instructions. (Now, where did you see a computer glossy broschure
giving away the instruction set last time, eh?)

I have the impression that the more limited, and weird, the computer
gets, the more fun it is to program. Really gives you a challenge!

-- 
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Front Capital Systems              !  _____(_)_____  Ceci n'est pas une Piper
Linneg 5, 11447 Stockholm, Sweden  !     !  !  !