Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator? Well, it's here and HP didn't make it...

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator? Well, it's here and HP didn't make it...
Date	2015-04-16 15:58 -0400
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Rich wrote:

> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-04-14, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> ["http://sourceforge.net/projects/wp34s/"]
>>>
>>  ...
>>> Anyway I'm sure there are plenty of folks here who grew up using 67s,
>>> 41s, and 48s, and maybe 10s, 11s, 15s, and 16s, so this project might
>>> be of interest.
>
>> It's cool, alright.
>
>> //--clip
>> Description
>
>> This project has created scientific firmware for the HP-20b and HP-30b
>> business calculators.
>
>> ...
>> //--clip
>
>
>> It's not a great time to be in the hardware business, though, no
>> matter how cool this project is.  I carried my 15C around from 1988
>> until last year, when it finally gave up the ghost, the victim surely
>> of decades of abuse in tropical climates.  The same week it kicked
>> the bucket though, I found an app for Android that replicates the
>> device exactly.  On my Samsung Note 3 it's even approximately the
>> same size!  Not sure even I would go out and by a stand-alone device
>> anymore.  The only thing the app doesn't replicate is the awesome
>> tactile feel of those raised buttons.  Instead, the phone vibrates -
>> slightly annoying.
>
> What you are reporting is what smartphones have been doing to many
> hardware industries.
>
> Palm Pilots no longer exist as marketable items - smart phones took
> over their category of "use" with good enough tools no one needed a
> second Palm Pilot to carry with them.
>
I remember being all set to buy a PDA, and noticing they were either low 
end junk, or very expensive.  That was 2009, I bought a netbook instead, 
which wsa cheaper than the good PDAs, and had more capability.

But, tablets are really PDAs with a bigger screen.  Odd how they 
disappeared, only to reappear a few years later as a more capable device. 
I'd have thought they'd just progress, like other things do.

> Compact digital cameras are also feeling the squeeze, smart phone
> cameras are often good enough now for what most used compact digital
> cameras for in the past that many no longer feel the need to carry a
> separate camera.
>
> I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.
>
Mp3 players seem to be fading.  Again low end ones, and then there are 
still iPods.   But when I got my Sansa Fuze (deliberately because it 
wasn't Apple) there were more options available.

I even saw a few weeks ago the suggestion that looking for old smartphones 
cheap is a good thing, since you can use them for lots of things besides 
phones.  Which makes sense.

On the other hand, I have two GPS (bought used) and a digital camera (plus 
some I've bought used) and I use them.  Of course, I don't have a 
cellphone of any kind.  I suppose one of my tablets could replace the GPS 
and camera, but I still like having the camera.  Certainly I don't want to 
use space to keep my MP3 collection on the tablets.

And of course, I still have a watch.

   Michael

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