19 Oct
2011
19 Oct
'11
1:52 p.m.
On 10/18/2011 10:08 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
I rmemeebr using AAA cells (using zinc/carbon Leclanche' technology) when
I was very young. Some torches (flashlights) used them. We called the
'U16's I think. I als rememebr the N sized cell from about the same time,
it was nuch less common. I think that was called a 'D23'
WHile I don;t know which was available first, both were available in the
UK many years before the HP28C. Heck, years before the HP35 (the original
one).
I love the 28 series (it's a great form
factor sadly abandoned), but the
lack of I/O options for backup/restore of programs is kind of annoying.
And N-cells are more expensive than AAA's :).
Agreed on all points. Yeah I wish they hadn't gone with N cells,
sometimes it's even a pain just to find them. Were AAAs around when the
original 28C came out? When did the build quality start to drop? I have a
35S, which is
My view is that hte 'glory years' of HP were mid 1960s to mid 1980s. The
build qualtiy started to decline iwth the 18C/28C models (which were
heat-staked togetheter and thus not repariable. The rot really set in in
1997 though.
-tony