50g

In the engineering community, HP always dominated throughout the 70s, 80s
and 90s, even with the steeper price. The quality of those calculators was
outstanding.
Brian
KB1VBF
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Usher" <jennisuzan@...>
To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?


Years ago, around 1986 to be exact, one of my college professors said that
TI had won the interface war, that algebraic was more popular than RPN.
But, I pointed out at the time that people were still willing to pay
considerably more for an HP than a TI. No longer quite as true...but that
the time, TI had nothing that could touch the HP.

Jennifer

On Apr 24, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Alan Golightly wrote:

>
> 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?
>
>
> 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
>
> ----- 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
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