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32S vs. 32Sii Message #1 Posted by Wayne Stephens on 21 Apr 2004, 3:24 p.m. Can someone briefly brief me on the differences between the 32S and the 32Sii. I have a couple of 32Sii's (with manuals) and a 32S on the way. I am not getting a manual with the 32S. Is it similar enough to the 32Sii for the 32Sii manual to be helpful in learning the 32S capabilities? If not, is there somewhere I can download a 32S manual as a .pdf file? Thanks. Take care. Wayne.

Re: 32S vs. 32Sii Message #2 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 21 Apr 2004, 5:35 p.m., in response to message #1 by Wayne Stephens Hi, in general, the 32S has *one* shift key;-) It has no fraction mode, and some other maybe minor stuff I don't recall from memory... All in all this leads to a less cluttered keyboard legend layout on the 32S. Unfortunately most 32S units have a display with slightly smaller pixels than in the 32SII. Maybe on this site could be a comparison of the 32S vs 32SII, and the manual of the 32S should be on the CD/DVD set. Regards, Raymond

Re: 32S vs. 32Sii Message #3 Posted by Karl Schneider on 22 Apr 2004, 2:11 a.m., in response to message #2 by Raymond Del Tondo Wayne -- As Raymond pointed out, the 32S was designed under the 42S paradigm, with only one shift key and heavier reliance on menus, for a neater keyboard appearance. Users asked for more functions to be more-directly accessible, so the 32Sii included two shift keys in order to "unpack" some functions from menus. The resulting arrangement is not as well-organized as that of the 15C, which was designed to have two shift keys. The 32Sii added the fraction-arithmetic and, more importantly, the simple Equation Editor that could be used with XEQ, SOLVE, INTEG, and for what you commented about with, "Shhhhhhhhhh!". -- Karl S.

Brain Fade Message #4 Posted by Wayne Stephens on 22 Apr 2004, 7:22 a.m., in response to message #1 by Wayne Stephens I must have been suffering from brain fade yesterday. I HAVE the museum CDs and the 32S manual is on them. I guess I was assuming since the 32Sii isn't there yet the the 32S wasn't either. It never hurts to look, though. Thanks for your help, guys. Wayne.

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #5 Posted by CalcKidd on 23 Apr 2004, 11:16 a.m., in response to message #1 by Wayne Stephens Was there a difference between the 50th anniversary 32s and the regular 32s?

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #6 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 23 Apr 2004, 11:31 a.m., in response to message #5 by CalcKidd The only difference on the calc itself is the golden '50' logo, and the slip case has 'Hewlett Packard' and the '50' logo embossed. Ah, and another difference: AFAIK of the anniversary version only a few thousand units were made. Raymond

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #7 Posted by David Smith on 23 Apr 2004, 12:04 p.m., in response to message #6 by Raymond Del Tondo Not all the 50th anniversery machines had "50th" cases... apparently they had more machines than cases and shipped some with the regular case.

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #8 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 23 Apr 2004, 7:01 p.m., in response to message #7 by David Smith Hmm, maybe that's the reason why you paid only $70;-) Raymond

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #9 Posted by David Smith on 24 Apr 2004, 12:57 p.m., in response to message #8 by Raymond Del Tondo Nope, the $70 machine as complete with the fancy case... and $20 of the price was overseas shipping.

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #10 Posted by bill platt (les Estats Unis d'Amerique) on 23 Apr 2004, 12:39 p.m., in response to message #5 by CalcKidd The amount one is willing to pay on e-bay. I saw a 5oth anniversary edition go for close to $500!

Re: 32S vs. 32S 50th anniversary Message #11 Posted by David Smith on 23 Apr 2004, 6:04 p.m., in response to message #10 by bill platt (les Estats Unis d'Amerique) I got a NIB one on Ebay for $70...

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