Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvra.cv.hp.com!everett From: everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: 19BII, 95LX Message-ID: <25590168@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> Date: 29 May 91 21:42:13 GMT References: <4182@uc.msc.umn.edu> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 95 fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) writes... >Differences betweeen the HP-19BII and the calculator mode of the HP-95LX. > >19BII menu 95LX notes > >DISP FIX All Menu Options Format, adds Sci and Eng > . , SETUP application > >MODES D/R Menu Options > BEEP SETUP application > PRNTR SETUP application, only serial printers are supported > INTL SETUP application > DEMO --not available-- > ALG RPN Menu Options > >PRINTER DISPL Menu Print Stack > LIST 1-2-3 application > REGS Menu Print Data, Menu Print Registers > TIME --not available-- > DBL --not available-- > TRACE --not available-- > >MATH SINH COSH TANH --not available-- > ASINH ACOSH ATANH --not available-- > >FIN TVM AMRT TABLE through 1-2-3 application > CFLO 1-2-3 application > BOND 1-2-3 application > DEPRC 1-2-3 application The HP 95LX *DOES* offer TVM amortization table. The calculator application can generate the TVM amortization and send the table to EITHER the printer or to 1-2-3. Also, the HP 95LX calculator has an added "adjust" menu that makes it much easier to calculate adjustable rate mortgages. Cash flows are available as a 1-2-3 template, as you mention. Bonds, however, are NOT included in the product, either as a part of the calculator or as a 1-2-3 template. There are (expensive) add-ins available for 1-2-3 that handle bond calculations, but HP has not tested these and does not support them. Depreciation is not available as a 1-2-3 template, but 1-2-3 does have @ functions for doing depreciation, so it's pretty easy to set it up. >BUS CURRX different implementation > UNITS different implementation, missing temperature units The HP 95LX has a user-definable screen of currency conversions, where the user supplies/edits the currency names and exchange rates. This could, of course, be used for setting up any type of conversion that is a simple linear relationship, but not ones with an additive component (such as temperature). >SUM 1 unnamed list, otherwise through 1-2-3 application The HP 95LX list is limited to a maximum of 100 entries, whereas the 19BII was limited by available memory, a maximum probably in the range of 700. >TIME CALC --not available--[*] > APPT APPT application > ADJST SETUP application > SET SETUP application > >SOLVE (again, you get 1 unnamed sum list, otherwise through 1-2-3 application) > SINH COSH TANH --not available-- > ASINH ACOSH ATANH --not available-- > FLOW SIZEC #T --not available-- Here, it's not clear what you mean by the "1 unnamed sum list". The SOLVE portion of the HP 95LX calculator allows you to have as many different files of equations as you wish. Each file can contain many more equations than the 19B could hold. Other additions on the HP 95LX include: Backsolving of 1-2-3 spreadsheets. STO to spreadsheet cells, force re-calc, and RCL from spreadsheet cells. Equation graphing functions (similar, but not identical, to the HP 48's). Find function (for finding an equation; remember, the HP 95LX can support LONG lists of equations). Typing aides when entering/editing expressions. >TEXT MEMO and PHONE applications > >In conclusion, the only material differences are: > > cash flows > bond > depreciation > hyperbolics (yes, I wondered too. wondered, that is, why the > 19B and 19BII had these...) > >Craig A. Finseth fin@unet.umn.edu [CAF13] Other than that, a pretty good comparison of basic functions, Craig. And the reason why the 19 had hyperbolics: ?because they were there?...:-). Everett Kaser Hewlett-Packard Company ...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett work: (503) 750-3569 Corvallis, Oregon everett%hpcvra@hplabs.hp.com home: (503) 928-5259 Albany, Oregon