50g

This group has always seemed to move in fits and starts. Long periods of quiet usually mean something is the matter, however. I once went 7 months with no mail from this group and then saw 150 posts in a day!
Why?
I don't know. I just enjoy the ride.

As to the calculator market, I can say that while the TI Toys get a lot of shelf space at the big Box stores, their "high end" 89 (Full disclosure: I carry and use a TI 89 Titanium most of the time for casual use) doesn't seem to move much. The same unit has been sitting on the "peg" in the store where I go to the Pharmacy for 4 months now. It's white with dust on the blister pack.
When I come home and I need to get serious (as in Manned Space Flight serious) away goes the toys and out comes the 50g..
I used a 48gx for dog years, until I kept hitting the memory cap on it.
I don't cotton much to these "calculator wars" All I know and follow is what works best when I need it to do so. The TI is a good little box. But what makes the 48 and the 50 "different are the Users, by and large.
It's a thought and application process more than a choice of "Hardware" as such.
When I got started, computers were still made with tubes, I used (and still do) a slide rule, and those computers worked on punch cards and tape.
I'm not saying this to blow my own horn. What I am saying is that having that history teaches you a certain way to think, and how you approach problem solving.
I say this a lot, and it confuses the heck out of a lot of people, but I like the 48-50 because the machine thinks like it's user.
So my feeling overall is that if the TI line "fits" someone well, OK, go for it. If that's "89%" of the known world, so be it. As long as I can be comfortable and productive when I must be, I can handle being the "11%" solution :)

Roci

--- On Sat, 4/23/11, Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@...> wrote:

From: Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@...>
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 5:34 PM

 

There may be some truth to that.  I currently have emulators for the HP 48gx (two actually), the HP 41CX, and an HP 16C on my iPhone.  That is in addition to several scientific calculator programs.  Even HP itself has started marketing an emulator for the HP 15C for the iPhone.  I also have HP 48gx emulators on both my PC and my Mac.  I bought my HP 50g because there are times when I still want a standalone calculator, and well, because I am a major geek.

Jennifer

On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Brian Denley wrote:

 

..or it might be that there IS no real calc market anymore.
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Golightly" <alanthegringo@...>
To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?

Not sure. The HP50G user base must be really small. I guess TI has the calc
market sewn up.

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From: Ray <bigraycar53@...>
To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:08 PM
Subject: [50g] what happed?

what happed to this site, no post in 3 mo.?