Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!phr From: phr@allegra.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Artificially different products and HP calculators Message-ID: <1641@allegra.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jul-83 15:32:28 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.1641 Posted: Thu Jul 14 15:32:28 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 22:04:11 EDT References: <1387@orca.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 6 In one of the issues of Hewlett-Packard Digest (maybe not the right name; an HP house rag advertising their calculators), HP said that the HP-45 used ROMs four times as dense as the ones found in the HP-35. So after they'd cloned all the HP-35 code and put in the -45's extra stuff, they still had a couple pages of memory left, and the famous HP-45 timer was added strictly for hack value.