HP Forum Archive 16

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Indonesian HP 42s Message #1 Posted by e.young on 3 Oct 2006, 9:08 p.m. It's my understanding that HP continued to make the 42S after 1995 so that they could give them out as replacement units, and that these were made in Indonesia. Does anyone know if these post-1995 Indonesian models have keys with the symbols molded-in, or were the symbols just painted on? I have two HP 32sii from Indonesia with painted keys.

Re: Indonesian HP 42s Message #2 Posted by zeno on 3 Oct 2006, 10:55 p.m., in response to message #1 by e.young Quote: It's my understanding that HP continued to make the 42S after 1995 so that they could give them out as replacement units, and that these were made in Indonesia. Does anyone know if these post-1995 Indonesian models have keys with the symbols molded-in, or were the symbols just painted on? I have two HP 32sii from Indonesia with painted keys. I do not know for sure, but the later HP20S cals had the symbols painted on the keys instead of the in-key-molding. I have a later 20S with the painted keys that came with a manual that said they were in-key-molded!! So since the later 20S ones were painted, i would imagine the later 42S ones also were painted.

Re: Indonesian HP 42s Message #3 Posted by Randy on 4 Oct 2006, 12:21 a.m., in response to message #1 by e.young Yes, the 42S was in production until the year 2000. They were only available as a service replacements. All 42S's, regardless of country of origin, had double shot keys. IMO, the issue is the underlying keyboard dome sheets - the 1998 to 2000 Indonesian units had noisy, snappy keyboards - just like the 32Sii :(

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