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HP Calculator Department Closing

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-the-end-of-the-line dept.

Beans writes "Today is a sad day for the engineering calculator world. HP calculator department is closing. www.calc.org has the scoop. Leaving employees just announced it on comp.sys.hp48. You can check google groups for the original posts."

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  1. Let me be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...strike up the violin. TI-89 for life!

  2. Its worth noting... by truesaer · · Score: 2, Troll
    That not everyone needs or wants a calculator that is unusual or difficult. I am a college CS student, and for my Calc/probability/discrete math classes, even the TI-89 is vastly overpowered. I need to do occasional simple graphs, use a few functions, and every once in a while use a non-cartesian coordinate system. My favorite use for my TI, in fact, is the function that converts decimals to fractions. Also, being able to input a messy fraction with multiple terms is useful (and with factorials in it).


    I would find it a real pain in the ass to have to learn even the HP way of entering in simple algebra....Of course, I'm not saying that HP shouldn't keep making calculators, but there are a lot of people complaining that TIs are cheap crappy imitations, and for most people thats just not the case.

  3. RPN is a lazy programmers shortcut. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    RPN is a lazy programmers shortcut. Casio + Sharp + TI simply rock!

    HP fanatics said they were GLAD their crappy RPN calculators had no mode to disable RPN and allow infix notaion with parens.

    They liked it being hard to use.

    And reason and the masses spoke and Casio and Sharp gained market share until HP was totally irrelevent.

    almost like the way command line oriented unix is heading.