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From: scott@hsvaic.boeing.com (Scott Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Repost of Calculator List
Message-ID: <257@hsvaic.boeing.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 17:15:57 GMT
References: <51906@apple.Apple.COM>   <2815e048:2895.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> <41637@cup.portal.com>
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In <41637@cup.portal.com> jpser@cup.portal.com (John Paul Serafin) writes:
>akcs.kevin@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Kevin Jessup) writes:
>>I must agree with your statement that the first series
>>had "the best quality ever"!  I'd love to see them built
>>like that gain!
>But would you buy them?   Specifically, would you pay the much higher
>cost given the choice of the two units side by side?
>What about all the whiners who don't remember or never knew the joy
>of being able to replace a mechanical slide rule with an electronic
>one for a mere 395 1972 dollars who complain about the exorbitant
>249 1990's dollars for a machine that couldn't be had for any price
>10 years ago and which will probably take heavy use for long after
>it is obsolete.

I can remember when (my father) brought home his first ($400) HP
calculator. It was state of the art, it did X/+- and had one memory (any
other features I don't recall). It only weighed about a pound, and the
transformer about 2. Bright (easy to read) LED numbers. SEVERAL places
of accuracy.

Yeah, those were the good ol days.

Why, today for $250 I can only get a calculator that does more than most
computers I have ever owned in terms of equation handling.

<cough cough cough>

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