hp calculators

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:47:32 +0100 (BST) ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: Is this a problem? I got my 41 about 10 years ago and it is still on its first set of batteries. OK, I don't use any peripherals, especially the card reader and I use it only a once or twice a week for a few minutes. But still, a N / LR1 cell is 0,81 EUR at a well knowen german electronics supplier. That's not that bad. On the original question: If you don't need the special featurs of the HP49 / HP50 I would go for a HP48S/SX/G/GX. I bought a new HP48SX in 1992 for 550,-DM. A lot of money for me at that time. But I _never_ regreted it. This HP48SX got me through my A levels and accompanied my EE / CS studies. It is on my desk in front of me right now. It still works like on its first day. The HP48S/SX/G/GX are the last calculators build in true HP quality tradition. The HP49 is POS. It is made like a cheap remote control. The keybord is an insult and it will not last very long. A shame for HP. The HP50 seems to be better, but is still far behind "HP quality". The HP35s seems to be OK if you don't need graphing. Or a used HP28s or HP16c, ... The HP16c has a nice formfactor. This is my one and only problem with the HP48: It is quite big. I also own a HP45. Its batteries are dead, I just use it on occation with the wall wart. It is about as old as I am (38) and modulo the dead bateries it still works well. (Somthing that I can't say for myself. ;-( ) -- \end{Jochen} \ref{http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/}