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From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: HP42s better than HP48sx?
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 20:34:56 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May27.203456.16246@lsuc.on.ca>
References: <1991May21.095844.29101@isc.rit.edu> <283b6022: 3227.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>

In article <283b6022:3227.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.jwtrav@hpcvbbs.UUCP (John Wettroth) writes:
>I agree with you pretty much.  I'm a working engineer and I tote my 42S
>around in my shirt pocket.  I keep my 48 at home for hacking and just it


     That's interesting.  Going down the price range, do "working
people" actually use the HP32S or the HP27S?  I've often looked
at these and come to the conclusion that these are "sucker market"
products.  That is to say that they are bought by people who end
up using them for stuff that they could have done with cheaper
products (students who could have bought an el cheapo Radio Shack
calculator) or end up sitting in desk drawers.  I use a Shack
EC-4035 and the main reason I bought it was that it was the cheapest
calculator I could find with simple trig functions, hex and bin
conversions and 2 levels of brackets.  For anything more complex
than that I use a spreadsheet or a dedicated program.
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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