spam from HP about 12C-Platinum
Message #1 Posted by Bill Wiese on 21 Sept 2004, 3:26 p.m.
Interesting that I'd get spam from HP touting new 12C Platinum calc. I've included their agitprop below minus formatting (lines divide different page sections/blocks).
And it's in HTML. :(
Notice how they try to explain away RPN.
[They do have my email from past msgs awhile back to Fred Valdez & Lee Goh about what a _real_ RPN calc should look like/ perform/ endure. So that's prob where they got it from. You'd figure I'd be on the sci. calc list instead - but then, these are marketing droids.]
Bill Wiese
San Jose
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