Re: Early 32E Message #2 Posted by Georg Holderied on 8 May 2000, 1:47 p.m., in response to message #1 by Mark Palmer
In my class at school in the late nineties we bought about 10 HP32Es.
Shortly after the one year warranty was over, segments and characters began to fail due to oxide buildup on the flexible pcbs. HP repaired the first ones that were sent in for free, but when mine failedafter 18 months they wouldn't. When I tried to solder the display to the flexi print, the print separated into several layers, which was the end of my first HP calculator.
That sandwich structure was bad engineering. Be careful when you solder on that flexi print.
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