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Guess you are right. They are doing their best to turn their products
from high quality to ..., you know :-(. If you compare what you would
get buying an HP in the past with what you get now, it is clear that
nobody cares for quality anymore.
Greetings,
Nick.
products
would
that
This must be something recent.  I've bought 2 49g's and both came
with metal nameplates.  I guess it was a year ago that I got the
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Well, if by this you mean only the plates, then yes, it is recent.
But the loss of quality over the years is something that you can
observe, if you compare what comes out of the box nowadays and what
you got, when you were buying some older HP model. Just go to
http://www.hpmuseum.com and take a look at the pictures of what use to
be meant by the words I bought an an HP. Nowadays, if there is no
manual, they say it is environment protection, and all other cheap
excuses for the things that are missing. (Special travel cases,
accesories and the like.)
Greetings,
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www.samsoncables.com has them.  Chep price too.  I ordered from 
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I've decided it's time to replace the old HP-48.
It got me through 4 years of engineering in college and another 5 years in
design practice.  I'm now going back to school and want a new machine that
will do some of the stuff my 48 won't (it's only an S, but a die-hard 
number
cruncher).   I've looked at the TI-89 and the HP49 and decided on the 49.
(We all have our reasons; I'll spare you mine.)
The problem is that I'm temporarily living in Canada, where you can't just
pop out to Office Depot and pick one up.  They only carry the 48G+, but
nothing higher.  We don't have Fry's Electronics.  We don't have Best Buy.
We don't even have Circuit City.  It's bleak.
I did find one 49 at an electronics boutique.  I bought it.  After a day
with it I was sure it was for me.  Small problem:  The serial number
revealed that it was made in Indonesia and was old enough to have the
screen, keyboard and serial port problems now fixed on newer Chinese 
models.
Reluctantly I took it back.  I can't seem to find another one.  I can order
it online from the US, but by the time I pay shipping, the outrageous
Canadian tax (we're talking 15% here) and duty because it's made in China,
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try to call HP Customer Care Center in Canada
(905) 206-4663
(877) 621-4722 8am-8pm mon-fri EST 
maybe they can give you some info about retailers
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I don't know where in Canada you are, but here in Halifax I picked mine up 

at
the Dalhousie University book store..I'd venture that any large University 

book
store would be a good bet.
Jim
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Jim Chisholm
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I got mine at http://www.oxycom.com/canada/final.asp?RECNO=415 about a year
ago, serial no starting with ID94.
Alain
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number
models.
order
their price was even higher than the $299 CDN I had paid for the one I
returned.  They wanted $350 CDN + tax, which is roughly $260 US.  That 
would
have been fine, but they couldn't tell me anything about how old their 
stock
was, or what the serial numbers might be.  If these things are so hard to
find in Canada, it seems a reasonable presumption that any stock on hand 
may
have been sitting for quite some time.
However, the problem is solved.  I ordered it online from Samson Cables in
Utah, who offers assurance that they are selling recently manufactured
models, made in China, complete with cables and Advanced User's Guide.
Their price was $159US + $8 shipping.  I had it shipped to dear old mom in
California, who is going to wrap it up pretty and ship it to me as a gift.
those
who replied.
Looking forward to my new gift
Kiera
as the one I just ordered, but it sure would have made receiving it easier.
though hopefully by the next time I'm in the market for a new calculator
I'll be back in the good ole US of A.
year
in
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$250???????
here in Italy the *default* price for a 49 is ~US$300 (tax is 20%...)
some years ago I purchased from Educalc and I had to pay ~40 US$ to the 
bank
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I have made an IR adapter 4 hp49.
It is much easier to make than on posted on hpcalc.
It can print text using PR1  but only text :-(
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Can you send Data to the 48?
Luis
Afganistan, or totally misunderstood me.  My statement has absolutely