21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
6:07 p.m.
Tony Duell said the following on 10/21/2011 4:38 PM:
As for the mechanical quality, I think the one I received is every bit
as good as my original 15C's. The PSE bug is the only one I've heard
of, and I think that's due to the speed of the underlying processor that
is running the emulation. But I'm not an expert. The original
diagnostics fail due to that emulator speed, but there is a new
diagnostic that does function properly.
Was the one that you tried at HPCC one of the prototypes? They are
saying on the HPMUSEUM forum that there are some differences.
The keyboard on mine feels very slightly different than my original
15C's but I wouldn't say one was necessarily better. Just different.
They both are great.
I haven't
read every single post on this topic, but has anyone mentioned
the HP15C-LE (Limited Edition) that HP just released? I bought one and
I tried
one out at an HPCC meeting and I was very disapointed. After
eveyone telling me how great the 15C was, I was not impressed.
Yes, it was a great machine for its time, and as such I regards the
origianl 15C as being a very interesting machine. But if you're going to
buy a calcualtor now (and thus put up with modern build quality, etc)
there are better choics (the 15C LE is about the same price as the 50G,
for exmaple).
it is quite true to its name. It actually runs
the original microcode
on an emulator, so the same bugs the original had are still there.
Along with some
others that weren't in the original. The PSE bug, for
example (I've alredy been contcated by a fellow HPCC member to ask what
he was doing wrong when he hit that bug).
The keyboard feel is not as good as the original either. And it's not as
well made from what I've seen.
-tony