Is HP getting serious about calculators?
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From: mats on 5 Oct 2006 13:50 JB wrote: >> I consider those to be an insult to the venerable Voyager line. > > You mention the Voyager line. Please explain. Was that a line of HP > calculators? it's just a code-name. You may find this site instructive: http://www.hpmuseum.org/collect.htm#series If so, I wonder why TI would have a Voyage calculator? > huh? maybe they wanted to go on from its success?-)
From: Wayne Brown on 5 Oct 2006 16:26 JB <wjbudd(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I consider those to be an insult to the venerable Voyager line. > > You mention the Voyager line. Please explain. Was that a line of HP > calculators? If so, I wonder why TI would have a Voyage calculator? The "Voyager" series was HP's internal project name for the 10C, 11C, 12C, 15C and 16C series of calculators from 1981. My favorite is the 16C, which is the only one of the Voyagers I own, though I wouldn't mind having a 15C. -- Wayne Brown <fwbrown(a)bellsouth.net> (HPCC #1104) ??s ofereode, ?isses swa m?g. ("That passed away, this also can.") "Deor," from the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)
From: Veli-Pekka Nousiainen on 5 Oct 2006 16:37 Wayne Brown wrote: > JB <wjbudd(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> I consider those to be an insult to the venerable Voyager line. >> >> You mention the Voyager line. Please explain. Was that a line of HP >> calculators? If so, I wonder why TI would have a Voyage calculator? > > The "Voyager" series was HP's internal project name for the 10C, 11C, > 12C, 15C and 16C series of calculators from 1981. My favorite is the > 16C, which is the only one of the Voyagers I own, though I wouldn't > mind having a 15C. When the Voyager came back from the deep black space as v'ger (was it Star Trek ? Perhaps a "borgified" space"ship") so did one new HP calculatrice in year 1999 - with TI style ENTER and ALG-mode to boot in (or is it "with")
From: John H Meyers on 5 Oct 2006 16:57 On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:46:42 -0500: > Principles are more important than success or failure. Success is a principle, too (although the meaning of each of these overlapping words changes with each speaker, as well as with each listener). "The operation went fine, although the patient died." Mark Twain: "The nation has sold its honor for a phrase" (1901) http://www.thewholeamericanhog.com/index.php?modulo=archives&dia=21&mes=09&ano=2006 http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/somethingelse/twain.html http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/23/23404/1413 -[ ]-
From: John H Meyers on 6 Oct 2006 01:35
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:34:55 -0500, Berk Birand wrote: > http://www.hp.com/calculators/scientific/index.html > Why does the 30S have more built-in functions than the 33s > ["250+" vs. "100+"], > although being $35 cheaper? And if the 50G really has "2300+ functions," how much should it cost? ;-) -[ ]- |