HP-48GX key stiffness

[GreyUser]

Interesting, didn’t know they built the first 48’s in Corvallis. Makes sense since it was just a stretched Pioneer, keyboard wise.

The big brown beasties had those crazy tab package CPU’s as well. I always got a chuckle over the black plastic stick-on covers over the cpu die due to the light sensitivity. I guess the comm port was large enough to let enough visible light in that the engineers decided it needed to be addressed. The attention to detail back then was just ingrained in the corporate culture, due in part to the fact that the founders initials were an acronym for High Priced ;-)