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My Saabnet friend, HP isn't the same company.....
Posted by TKC (more from TKC) on Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:37:21
In Reply to: HP-33, yaofeng, Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:33:09
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old school engineers/scientists/.... like us used to know.
The US made HP calculators were built like tanks. They rarely go bad except for the LED segments and batteries.
I still have a HP-21 that I bought in 1975,(the same year you got yours) now with a couple of burnt LED segments and one or two sticky keys. It still works.
The Singapore made ones were not too bad, but a bit more flimsy, I had a HP-41CV bought in 1980. I used it all through grad school. The calculator case would flex and the display would go blank or reset itself. The ribbon connections inside weren't that great. The thing finally died on me. On one dark trash collection day in 2000, I quietly put the calculator, card reader, all modules, and manuals in a box by the roadside and slowly walked away.
I bought a HP-17 business calculator in 1998, not a bad little calculator, much more user friendly than the proven HP-12C. I still use it to balance my check books or see how many years I have to work before I could retire.
Fast forward to present, I got hold of a HP-48 from someone in town that tried to unload it for $50. It's nicely built, loads of features, just too complicated for my age. It sits on my desk at home, I take it out just to remind me about the good old days.
At work, I use two TI non-RPN calculators.
I wish my kids would learn to use RPN. I think they are too old to learn about Dad's QUIRKY calculator without an "=" sign. Besides, I don't think HP would make another calculator with RPN after the HP-33.
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