HP50g FrankenCalc

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(01-24-2018 01:58 AM)DavidM Wrote:  Also, note that you can (and probably should) update both the FrankenCalc and the 49g+ to firmware version 2.15 as well.

The other interesting thing to me about this FrankenCalc is that the printed serial number on the back starts with "CAN" instead of "CNA". I thought all of these units were made by KINPO in China. Has anyone ever heard of 49g+/50g units with serial numbers beginning with those letters? Was KINPO really that sloppy with their label printing? Note: it's normal for the printed serial number on that label to be different than the "soft" serial number returned by the SERIAL command, so don't be alarmed if you find them to be different on all of these units.

Behaves exactly as you noted with the power test. Definitely a 49g+. Does your update suggestion imply both 49g+ & 50g use the same OS?

I noticed the difference in the serial number too. I remember Tim W. noting the different China prefixes, and I thought they just differ in the last letter (CNA, CNB, etc). Perhaps this calculator is an after-hours production run for the black market, or again just something someone else thought would be cool.

I definitely like the color scheme!
~Mark