HP Forum Archive 13

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Old HP (and calculators) will never come back Message #1 Posted by Renato on 29 June 2003, 12:32 a.m. The 12C platinum is a (still) living proof of that. In a 1972 advertisement about the hp-35 you can read: Quote: Many people know us as an instrument manufacturer: we make more than 2,000 products for measurement, test and analysis. Others know us as a computer company: more than 10,000 own our programmable calculators and computers. We prefer to think that our business is to serve measurement, analysis and computation needs . . . in science, industry, medicine and education. Current HP does not "serve measurement, analysis and computation needs . . . in science, industry, medicine and education". Current HP is a consumer and corporate products company. Former HP was a company providing products for R&D teams, working at customer core-business projects. Current HP printers come with ink cartridges containing 1/3 ink of regular capacity. IMO, Agilent is all that is still left of former HP. Just read the quote above another time, and I guess youŽll agree that technical calculators (opposed from consumer calculators) should be Agilent products.

Re: Old HP (and calculators) will never come back Message #2 Posted by Wektor on 29 June 2003, 1:02 a.m., in response to message #1 by Renato You're right 100% ... there won't be any "new" HP-41C/CV/CX, HP-42S, HP-71B, HP-15C, ... Perhaps they will introduce something like HP-49G+ or HP-49GII but old cals are gone forever.

Re: Old HP (and calculators) will never come back Message #3 Posted by Paul Brogger on 30 June 2003, 1:13 p.m., in response to message #1 by Renato We should gather all of our favorite quotes from the old H-P's manuals. I think someone else pointed out not-too-long-ago a quote that I recently found again in the inside front cover of the HP-34C manual (April, 1980 -- Rev. B): "Each of our calculators is precision crafted and designed to solve the problems its owner can expect to encounter throughout a working lifetime." Does ANY company make such claims these days? I believe I would today reflexively dismiss these words as meaningless marketing hype, in whatever context. It's amazing that the old H-P could print that in black & white, and then could back it up with a rock-solid piece of equipment that is still operating perfectly, thank you very much indeed . . .

YUP, it lasts a lifetime, HP vs Agilent Message #4 Posted by Norm on 30 June 2003, 3:47 p.m., in response to message #3 by Paul Brogger YUP, it lasts a lifetime. A 34C is STILL a preferred tool for dealing with various minor math problems I encounter. So how do we get these dim-witted mafia-goons called "HP" to release the last plundered remnants of the calculator division to the scientific minds who still exist over at Agilent????

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