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

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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 16:40 +0000
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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.

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.



PS - If you'd like a 15C simulator for your PC, there is one here:
http://hp-15c.homepage.t-online.de/content_web.htm

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How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-14 13:45 -0700
  Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2015-04-14 22:17 +0000
    Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-14 18:34 -0700
    Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-23 13:43 -0700
      Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2015-04-23 22:02 +0000
        Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-23 16:52 -0700
          Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-23 23:37 -0400
            Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-23 22:39 -0700
        Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2015-04-24 18:07 +0000
          Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-24 12:50 -0700
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            Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... bashley@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 08:36 -0700
              Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-05-04 14:53 -0700
                Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-05-29 07:23 +0100
  Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-04-15 12:16 +0000
    Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-15 11:38 -0700
      Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com> - 2015-04-15 15:10 -0400
        Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-15 20:36 -0500
    Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-04-16 16:40 +0000
      Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-16 15:58 -0400
        Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-04-17 08:57 +0200
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            Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here   and HP didn't make it... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-19 13:50 -0400
              Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here     and HP didn't make it... Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-19 18:56 -0500
                Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here       and HP didn't make it... Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-19 19:10 -0500
                Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here     and HP didn't make it... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-19 22:22 -0400
                Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator?  Well, it's here   and HP didn't make it... Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-04-23 14:16 -0400
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