50g

RPN rocks!   Too bad the youth of today don't realizr this.




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From: Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@...>
To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, April 28, 2011 6:04:20 PM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?

  
Years ago, around 1986 to be exact, one of my college professors said that TI 
had won the interface war, that algebraic was more popular than RPN.  But, I 
pointed out at the time that people were still willing to pay considerably more 
for an HP than a TI.  No longer quite as true...but that the time, TI had 
nothing that could touch the HP. 


Jennifer


On Apr 24, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Alan Golightly wrote:

  
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>IMO the HP50g is a very powerful calculator.  But extremely user unfriendly.  My 
>favorite is still my HP15C; simple, yet powerful.
>I think TI cornered the academic market; too bad so many people missing out on 
>RPN.  It would be nice if HP put some effort into their calculators and do what 
>Joe said to improve the HP50g to modern standards.
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>From: Brian Denley <b.denley@...>
>To: 50g@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:34 PM
>Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
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>Joe:
>Also the OS is still the same as the one in my HP-28S from 1986! Brilliant 
>for it's day but HP should have continued and developed a MathCad type GUI 
>with a PC application sync (may be to Mathcad). I think students and 
>professionals migth have adopted it as a standard. Way too late now!
>Brian
>http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Joseph Colannino" <joecolannino@...>
>To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:24 AM
>Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
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>> The problem with the 50G was the change in the position of the enter key.
>> HP blew it with the change and underestimated customer resistance to it.
>> Microsoft committed the same faux pas when it rearranged the Excel user
>> interface. For the same reason, the qwerty keyboard remains popular 
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>> its shortcomings. This lesson has been repeated so often that you would
>> think HP would have figured it out. But it didn't, and the 50G has 
>> declined
>> in popularity because of it.
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>> Joe
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