I know. HP had a great reputation for making quality products.
Jennifer
Jennifer
On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Brian Denley wrote:
> 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
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jennifer Usher" <jennisuzan@...>
> To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
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> 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:
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>> 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?
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>>
>> 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
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>> ----- 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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