50g

Are well written manuals available for the 50G? I am of course excluding  the manual written by HP as they are NOT well written.

Assuming that you're also lumping the HP-written Advanced User's
Reference Manual (AUR) in the "NOT well written" category, have you
looked at the documentation section of hpcalc.org
(http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/docs/)?  Most of the documentation there
is written for the 49g, but the 50g is essentially the same from the
user's perspective.

If you haven't yet looked at the AUR, it can be downloaded from HP at:
http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02836298/c02836298.pdf

Thanks for the links, I will have a look at the AUR for the 49 to find out if it helps. 

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, John Kono <jtkono@...> wrote:

>
> Assuming that you're also lumping the HP-written Advanced User's
> Reference Manual (AUR) in the "NOT well written" category, have you
> looked at the documentation section of hpcalc.org
> (http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/docs/)?  Most of the documentation there
> is written for the 49g, but the 50g is essentially the same from the
> user's perspective.
> 
> If you haven't yet looked at the AUR, it can be downloaded from HP at:
> http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02836298/c02836298.pdf
>

Guys,

Let's admit.  HP does not have enough material to support RPL.  RPL is not even known by non-HP users at all.
HP is not doing nothing -'not enough' but nothing- to market it and I'm think they are not sure to sustain thier calculator business.
Hence, there is not a wide user profile hence not enough books -I mean commercial books- that one can easily find for any programming language.
So what we are recommending to new comers who are keen to learn / develop RPL [skills] are at least decade-old materials.  In fact, they are like the Xerox-copies of a course that we had taken in the university just as we used to recommend to our friends to make their life easier.  Don't you see we have to recommend a HP-49 manual to a HP-50 'buyer', user.
I believe the market should should be flooded with books for such a powerful feature like RPL.  Search for it and see how many books you can find and how old is the newest one.
Tell me if I'a wrong.  And if I'm wrong please tell me when the new model of HP, the one that was broadly discussed  late 2010, early 2011 before we have given up on HP, will be out?

Happy new year to all!!!!

Fatih


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 From: "vjwolf3@..." <vjwolf3@sbcglobal.net>
To: 50g@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 10:44 PM
Subject: [50g] Re: 50G Manuals
 

  
Thanks for the links, I will have a look at the AUR for the 49 to find out if it helps. 

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, John Kono <jtkono@...> wrote:

>
> Assuming that you're also lumping the HP-written Advanced User's
> Reference Manual (AUR) in the "NOT well written" category, have you
> looked at the documentation section of hpcalc.org
> (http://www.hpcalc.org/hp49/docs/)?  Most of the documentation there
> is written for the 49g, but the 50g is essentially the same from the
> user's perspective.
> 
> If you haven't yet looked at the AUR, it can be downloaded from HP at:
> http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02836298/c02836298.pdf
>

I have an HP48GII - very similar to the HP50g. It's a very difficult machine to learn how to use.

But there is a good manual- HP48 insights by William Wickes.

The concept of the HP48 is so ambitious that you need a really good manual and this is it- it gives you a real chance of mastering the machine.

But if you want to do even moderately complicated scientific calculations there are other solutions- I use my HP200LX most of the time. I still hope to master the HP48GII!

Ed L