Re: New HP 50G owner, experiencing problems

andrewthacker1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Over the weekend, he's having me attempt to "discharge all the static"
by leaving all batteries out of the calculator for 24 hrs. Does anyone
have more details about the nature of this problem? I searched around
for "50g static" but didn't get much.
he probably thought about "discharging" the capacitor that sits right besides the battery compartment (visible here on images 1-5: http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/articles.cgi?read=408).
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