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From hp12c platinum owner's handbook
Message #1 Posted by J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente on 21 May 2003, 2:49 a.m.

I received my hp12c platinum yesterday, and I've read this on backside of cover from the Owner's Handbook:

Manufacture's name: Hewlett-Packard Co.     KINPO ELECTRONICS
                                            (CHINA) Co., LTD

Ok, everybody knows that new HP calculators (9 series and 12c) are being made by Kinpo, but I couldn't imagine that HP would officially put it on their products.

This is my first «Voyager», and I like it very much, specially its keys feedback. Nice to see that Kinpo can do this kind of keys. I will send some of my impressions and photos I've taken to Jordi Hidalgo for his review for next HPCC Datafile.

Best regards,

J.Manrique
Users Club from Gijón
#1077 HPCC Member

      
Where can the 12c plat be purchased now?
Message #2 Posted by Gene on 21 May 2003, 7:30 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente

?

            
Re: Where can the 12c plat be purchased now?
Message #3 Posted by Jordi Hidalgo on 21 May 2003, 12:53 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Gene

http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv010.cgi?read=33334

Jordi Hidalgo
HPCC #1046

            
Re: Where can the 12c plat be purchased now?
Message #4 Posted by Richard Garner on 21 May 2003, 1:59 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Gene

The only place I have seen them so far is eBay.

            
Re: Where can the 12c plat be purchased now?
Message #5 Posted by Stan (Sg) on 22 May 2003, 8:40 a.m.,
in response to message #2 by Gene

I have seen them at a specialty store in Singapore. I was going to buy one until I saw the discussion about how slow it was solving the financial equation. I wonder if the 12C Platinum that I saw could have been a preproduction model? It was in an unopened blister pack, so perhaps not...

As mentioned in other posts, it's too bad that trig functions were not included in the new version. Having said that- I am really glad to see a new RPN model.

      
Re: HP12c platinum -- But Does It Turn Itself Off Regularly???
Message #6 Posted by Paul Brogger on 22 May 2003, 8:52 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente

As (only) an observer, I'd think the major question is whether they fixed the automatic shut-down at the end of each program execution. That seemed easily the most damning "feature" of the version used for Beta test.

. . . so, to any of you who've obtained an off-the-shelf, retail-ready model: Does it turn itself off?

            
Apparently Not . . .
Message #7 Posted by Paul Brogger on 23 May 2003, 1:09 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Paul Brogger

FYI, Jordi Hidalgo amswered this question via email with a reference to this message. From this I take it that his unit does not exhibit the turn-off problem.


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