Re: HP seems to have lost its Way Message #4 Posted by Juan J on 23 Sept 2003, 2:23 p.m., in response to message #3 by Namir
Calculators had their finest hour when PCs were big, clumsy and expensive, that is true. But there are always problems you can handle with a calculator more efficiently than you would on a PC, even a portable one.
From my experience, for field work a well-programmed calculator (for instance, a 28, 41, 42 or 48) can beat a laptop PC or a PDA and endure much more abuse under harsh work conditions. And there will always be a need for such applications (and devices.) On the other hand, PC-based job design can quickly be confirmed with a calculator; a parameter that those nice software applications of today does not include on its results but is needed can be calculated on the way with a calculator.
Unfortunately HP has apparently shifted its interests from those little machines we use and love so much, but that is another story.
And correct me if I am (quite possibly) wrong, but Admiral Sergey Gorshkov liked to say that "better is the enemy of good enough."
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