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What happened to HP calculators?

education.zdnet.com — HP calculators surpass Texas Instruments hands-down. Always have, always will. So why do all the textbooks only demonstrate TI ? Maybe it's a marketing issue...

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  • warnergt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I retract this statement. It wasn't a chintzy keyboard problem; it was a software problem that intermittently missed key inputs. It appears that they have a ROM upgrade which fixes this.
  • warnergt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I gotta have my HP calculator with RPN. However, they really hurt their reputation when they went chincy on the keyboards. You type in a number and find out (after it's too late) that one of the digits is missing. They did finally address this problem on the 49g+ after a certain serial number. From my experience, th HP 50g devolved back to the intermittent keyboard problems. I wish I had another HP 49g+ (with the right serial number).
  • pauldy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Simple answer is that the good HP calculators work using rpn and most schools have a hard enough time with students grasping standard notation.
  • ahbanks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0RPN - many people won't put forth the effort to understand the mechanics, even if it makes life easier in the long run. Personally, I like RPN.

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