IMO the HP50g is a very powerful calculator. But extremely user unfriendly. My favorite is still my HP15C; simple, yet powerful.
I think TI cornered the academic market; too bad so many people missing out on RPN. It would be nice if HP put some effort into their calculators and do what Joe said to improve the HP50g to modern standards.
From: Brian Denley <b.denley@...>
To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
Joe:
Also the OS is still the same as the one in my HP-28S from 1986! Brilliant
for it's day but HP should have continued and developed a MathCad type GUI
with a PC application sync (may be to Mathcad). I think students and
professionals migth have adopted it as a standard. Way too late now!
Brian
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
Also the OS is still the same as the one in my HP-28S from 1986! Brilliant
for it's day but HP should have continued and developed a MathCad type GUI
with a PC application sync (may be to Mathcad). I think students and
professionals migth have adopted it as a standard. Way too late now!
Brian
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Colannino" <joecolannino@...>
To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
> The problem with the 50G was the change in the position of the enter key.
> HP blew it with the change and underestimated customer resistance to it.
> Microsoft committed the same faux pas when it rearranged the Excel user
> interface. For the same reason, the qwerty keyboard remains popular
> despite
> its shortcomings. This lesson has been repeated so often that you would
> think HP would have figured it out. But it didn't, and the 50G has
> declined
> in popularity because of it.
>
> Joe