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Basically after the merger with Compaq in 2001, HP lost interest in their calculators. They still technically sell them, but they aren't advertised to any degre
by jhbadger 9y ago
Basically after the merger with Compaq in 2001, HP lost interest in their calculators. They still technically sell them, but they aren't advertised to any degree. Obviously since the advent of the smartphone the need for dedicated calculators is lessened, but as you say, the haptic feedback is nice and TI seems to be still selling a lot of calculators.
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- keenerd 9y agoThey were dying long before smartphones. Cheap Casio calculators happened. I have a little $15 Casio scientific calculator and it has been all that I've needed for college and professional work. But it can take integrals, derivatives and has a general newtonian solver. It covers everything except matrices. Those are miserable to do on any calculator so I'm not missing much. In all my life I've only ever seen two HP RPN calculators. One belonged to my high-school chem teacher, the other to a real estate agent. If there were a $30 RPN calculator with similar functions, I would use it. Edit: 18 years later and they still make it, https://www.casio.com/products/calculators/fraction-and-scientific/fx-115msplus https://www.casio.com/products/calculators/fraction-and-scie... Edit2: Looks like the most readily available RPN calculators are the HP 35S ($55) and HP 12C ($50).
- tragomaskhalos 9y agoYup - among us maths geeks at school in the 80s the HPs - especially the 41 - were the Rolls Royce of calculators, beautiful machines that few could afford, although even the high end programmable Casio that I settled for was pretty pricey.
- LanceH 9y agoI would say it was the tight integration of the TI8* into the classroom that did it. Everyone's first scientific calculator was more or less required by some course.