HP 50g + ROM 2.09
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From: John H Meyers on 24 Aug 2006 13:56 On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:51:04 -0500, I wrote: > Rob seems to be suggesting that it might benefit 50G sales > if no one else experienced any "hiccups" trying to use it on 50G, > even if they neglected to have scoured the manual to find relief. Imagine even a store clerk trying to demonstrate a 50G to potential purchasers -- what if the equation library might seem a great thing to demonstrate, but it just wouldn't work? Store clerks have lots of stuff to sell, and can't be expected to intensely study manuals and become experts; that's why "idiot proofing" seems profitable. [r->] [OFF]
From: Rob on 24 Aug 2006 18:08 Well, I'm not sure if it will help sales to fix it as much as it would hurt sales to NOT fix it.... Not much benefit to sales to fix something that the customer base expects to work in the first place. John H Meyers wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:46:20 -0500: > > > Rob wrote: > > When did I say that I used it on a 49? > > I used this library for years on my 48, > > and never had a single problem with it. > > Rob seems to be suggesting that it might benefit 50G sales > if no one else experienced any "hiccups" trying to use it on 50G, > even if they neglected to have scoured the manual to find relief. > > [r->] [OFF]
From: Rob on 24 Aug 2006 18:10 ....and why make users pour over the manual for some obscure note in order to access basic functionality? I'm not in school anymore...the esoteric parts of these machines are no longer my primary interest...I've got a job to do, and I don't need to have my nose in a manual all day long. John H Meyers wrote: > Store clerks have lots of stuff to sell, > and can't be expected to intensely study manuals and become experts; > that's why "idiot proofing" seems profitable. > > [r->] [OFF]
From: Harold A. Climer on 25 Aug 2006 11:33 On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:56:05 -0500, "John H Meyers" <jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote: >On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:51:04 -0500, I wrote: > >> Rob seems to be suggesting that it might benefit 50G sales >> if no one else experienced any "hiccups" trying to use it on 50G, >> even if they neglected to have scoured the manual to find relief. > >Imagine even a store clerk trying to demonstrate a 50G >to potential purchasers -- what if the equation library >might seem a great thing to demonstrate, >but it just wouldn't work? > >Store clerks have lots of stuff to sell, >and can't be expected to intensely study manuals and become experts; >that's why "idiot proofing" seems profitable. > >[r->] [OFF] It would be nice if they had an HP50G emulator on a stores calculator department's computer though. A prospective customer could get a better idea as to how the calculator actually worked. When I bought my first HP calculator an HP25C, I was able to get my hands on a demo right in the store. They let me fool around with it for an hour. That really sold me on the calc. Harold A. Climer Dept.Of Physics,Geology,and Astronomy University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga TN USA 37403
From: John H Meyers on 25 Aug 2006 16:00
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:33:15 -0500, Harold A. Climer wrote: > When I bought my first HP calculator an HP25C, > I was able to get my hands on a demo right in the store. > They let me fool around with it for an hour. > That really sold me on the calc. There also used to be large demo displays in stores that I frequented. I recall developing a one-card NPV/IRR program on a big HP-built store display containing an HP65 at Macy's in New York City one afternoon (no one else cared that I monopolized it for two hours), then I submitted it to HP, which was collecting and publishing user programs at the time, and I received back my packet of blank programming cards which had been offered for accepted submissions; however, I never did fork over the steep price for that calculator, so I never got to use my own programs :) [r->] [OFF] |