Re: HP calculator popularity Message #5 Posted by Kenji Nagahama on 8 July 2002, 11:45 p.m., in response to message #4 by Trisnadi
I am working in a Japanese engineering company relating oil and gas business, too (sometimes I work for Indonesian oil company).
Generally speaking (not only my company), most of people use CASIO or SHARP in Japan which are Japanese blands. HP calc is unfortunately VERY rare because HP calc devision failed marketing and has recently withdrawed here. I think it was not caused by Japan's non-tariff barriers. Their marketing strategy might be wrong, because HP's PDA, workstation, PC, printer etc. carve out some market shares in Japan.
As far as my company, some advanced users have HP200LX and others. I am a HP's user (49G, 32SII, 17BII) now, while used to have a CASIO's pocket computer. I satisfy the quality and performance of HP's very much.
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