18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
9:35 p.m.
I use a 35s for my day to day work and can definately recommend it. Okay
it's no HP classic but build quality is okay, it supports my loved RPN and
isn't too complicated. It's in use dayly. In my experience the batteries
last quite long.
For the sometimes needed classic experience I have my old HP 67 readily
available in my office desks drawer ;)
Regards,
Wolfgang
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2011/10/19 Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
On 10/18/2011 11:29 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
When did the build quality start to drop? I have
a 35S, which is great
Oh man, I'm jealous!!
The build quality of the
but the build quality isn't even close to
real HP. It also chews
through batteries like there's no tomorrow. (2x CR2032) The next most
recent one I have is a 48SX, which is very nicely built, so it seems
to me the decline happened somewhere in between.
That's a good question. My dad teaches Math at a local community college
and the Math department at said college always seemed to get ahold of at
least one example of most of the graphing calculators that came out in
the late 80s through the mid 90s, from the Casio FX-7000G on. As a
result I got to play with most of them :).
HP-48SX was great, as was the GX (used that one
through college and it
still works, though alas the LCD has started to "leak"). I recall the
38G (1995) as being well built physically but a poorly executed idea
software-wise (it was HP trying to take on TI in the high school-level
education department and failing miserably).
Was the 38G the algebraic-notation one with the menus and stuff in the
firmware?
The HP 49G (1999) was a
real dog and I don't think things have been
the same since, though the
HP50 is a marked improvement (and the 35S is pretty nice in comparison
as well.)
Oh, that's a shame.
So based on your experience, knowing that I have a 48SX and that I like
that build quality, it seems the latest model I should mess with would
probably be the 48GX?
There's nothing wrong with my current "fleet" of calculators, but now
being recently gainfully employed once again (good riddance, Florida!) I've
been thinking of treating myself to something new.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA