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From: bill@utastro.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Artificially" different products
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Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 15:38:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 15 15:38:02 1983
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	Several years ago, Hewlett-Packard made a calculator
	with a built-in stopwatch, and another calculator that
	was the same except for the stopwatch.  Naturally the
	latter calculator was cheaper.  However, by pressing an
	undocumented combination of buttons on the latter
	calculator, you could put it in the stopwatch mode that
	it wasn't supposed to have!

Except that, regrettably, the cheaper one had only an R-C
oscillator, but the expensive one was crystal controlled.

		Bill Jefferys  
		Astronomy Dept
		University of Texas
		Austin TX 78712

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