Some HP-50G Questions

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(12-02-2018 06:40 PM)cdmackay Wrote:  

(12-02-2018 03:04 PM)edryer Wrote:  1.
When I am in the situation that I get the trying to recover memory dialogue, I press "A" for Yes and nothing happens... this is on both my 50G's, the key themselves are fine, but it requires multiple presses before (sometimes) it registers. No on the other hand is immediate.

I have seen this on mine (latest firmware). I found that if Yes doesn't work, press another key first, then Yes, and it works.

I can confirm that I've encountered this, and believe it or not, one of the little paper guides that shipped with one of the two HP 50g units I bought at some point even has a page acknowledging this behavior, stating that if the Yes button doesn't work to press some other key other than No first, then press Yes again.

It definitely smells like some kind of weird firmware bug that never got fixed. It beeps at you as if it thinks you're pressing an invalid key, until you press some other key first and try again. IIRC, it doesn't happen every time, but occasionally. I'm not sure exactly what triggers it.