Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!ut-ngp!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: "Artificially" different products Message-ID: <475@utastro.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 15:38:02 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.475 Posted: Fri Jul 15 15:38:02 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 17-Jul-83 00:33:34 EDT References: mit-eddie.434 Lines: 20 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 (...ucbvax!nbires!ut-ngp!utastro!bill) (...decvax!eagle!ut-ngp!utastro!bill) ( utastro!bill@utexas-11)