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I considered buying one of these at the time (as a happy HP 32S calculator user) but after playing with a colleague's one I decided not to bother. It was neat b
by cjk2 3y ago
I considered buying one of these at the time (as a happy HP 32S calculator user) but after playing with a colleague's one I decided not to bother. It was neat but there were so many compromises and inconveniences that it made the thing difficult at best so I figured I'd leave it a few years to see what happened. My colleague, after the initial amazed and shiny period wore off, just used it as a terminal for futzing with routers with in the end. This was a pretty expensive solution because we already had piles of old Wyse terminals floating around unused.
- mschaef 3y agoI had a series of HP devices around this time including an 11C, a pair of 48's, and a 200LX. The 200LX was the one that got the least use. It was would've been great if I had a need for custom DOS apps on the go, but as a general tool it was both too limited and too awkward. (In an alternate world where calculators still made sense, it'd still have been interesting to see the 200LX form factor with hardware/software from the calculator division. They did at least get somewhat close to this with the financial calculator app.)
- cjk2 3y agoYeah that. I'm on the mathematics side so I still have a calculator in hand all the time and use one many times a day. I have one of these https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-15c-collectors-edition/ https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-15c-collectors-edition/ ... anything more complicated gets subcontracted out to Julia. They have the HP Prime now. I have one but I barely use it. It's damn fast though!
- hyperdimension 3y agoDon't forget about Swiss Micros calculators if you haven't heard of them. I don't have any originals to compare to, but I'm happy with my collection of them. https://www.swissmicros.com/ https://www.swissmicros.com/