I spoke with the marketing manager of Eveready's Lithium AA Batteries discussed on page 38 of the January/February issue. You will recall that I was extremely enthusiastic about these batteries. My experience was that these batteries actually quadrupled the battery life of my 95LX and the batteries themselves weighed about half as much as the normal alkaline batteries. (Editor's note: Mark Scardina tested the batteries and thinks that a doubling of battery life is a more accurate estimate.)
The Eveready manager and I spoke about possibilities of how to get these batteries out to HP 95LX users soon, since these batteries probably won't be found in stores for another year. One possibility that we discussed is for our company, Thaddeus Computing, to offer sets of these batteries through the mail. If it doesn't make economic sense for us, we will try to work with Eveready to find another way of making these batteries available to 95LX users.