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From: peraino@gmu90x.gmu.edu (peraino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: calculator for 12 yr. old school use.
Message-ID: <2373@gmu90x.gmu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 20:32:28 GMT
Organization: George Mason Univ., Fairfax Va.
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     I would NOT recommend an HP28S for your 12 year old. It has many functions
that he/she will not need for quite some time. Other less expensive
calculators are available that will suit his/her needs. Sure, you could
say that he/she will grow into it, but by then, you will have an
obsolete machine; so it just doesn't make economical sense to purchase
something like the 28s now. The time to buy the 28s is when (if) the calculator
can be used to it's fullest. But by then, a better machine will be on
the market anyway.


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