aaastrom@nike.calpoly.edu (Allen Aastrom) (05/14/91)
In article <1991May12.203824.12992@colorado.edu> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: >In article <BD3E1CE8C000083D@gacvx2.gac.edu> TDSTRONG%MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes: >>fine however when run the machine entirely locked up. Even pulling the >>batteries and the dreaded ON-A-F failed to work. The last resort was the >>RESET Button and that worked. > >NOW, we are on the point of this message... I see this all the time... >someone posts.. "... it locked up the calculator.... ON-C didn't work .... >ON-A-F didn't work... pulling the batteries didn't work... and finally >I tried the reset button as a last resort and it worked.... " >WHY??? I don't understand why people use it as a last resort. Let me let you >stays off. It seems to be a bit kinder than ON-A-F. I say use it right >after ON-C. What are other people's comments? > > ian > >-=Runaway Daemon=- I highly agree! If ON-C doesn't work, I go directly for the RESET. And BTW ian, the exact problem you described with the older version of tetris happened to me too. And I thought I was the only one to have that happen to!
IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) (05/15/91)
As to why people try ON-C ON-A-F and then the button (if at all) may be because they may have had experinces like mine. Nothing horrible, just that in EVERY HP I have had, one of those little rubber feet always seems to come unstuck and get lost. Well, I took the plunge and took off one of the feet on my 48SX, and to my surprise, they are not glued on. They are just very deep holes. I may have missed it, but I don't remember anybody mentioning the fact that the feet are not glued on and therefrore there is no real danger of them falling off from removing them. Cheers. - Ian Smith <<ims103@psuvm.psu.edu>>
FORSTHO@IITVAX.BITNET (05/15/91)
>Incidentally on the version E's I heard the reset moved under the upper >right hand foot but I don't know for sure. Yes, on the ver E, the reset button is under the upper right hand foot. ********************************************** * Thomas L. Fors * * Illinois Institute of Technology * * MCL Inc. * * * * BitNet: forstho@iitvax.bitnet * * CompuServe: 76557,344 * * * **********************************************
egraeler@uceng.UC.EDU (Eric S Graeler) (05/16/91)
In article <A8FA60402000005D@gacvx1.gac.edu>, FORSTHO@IITVAX.BITNET writes: > >Incidentally on the version E's I heard the reset moved under the upper > >right hand foot but I don't know for sure. > > Yes, on the ver E, the reset button is under the upper right hand foot. I have ver E, and my reset is under the upper left hand foot with the calculator turned over. Maybe it has to do more with when the calculator was manufactured. I wonder what HP changed that I am getting or missing out on. Eric Graeler egraeler@uceng.uc.edu