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10C Series Original Prices Message #1 Posted by SteveH on 25 Jan 2007, 5:31 p.m. Looking through the 10C series on this site tonight I was surprised to see that the 11C and the 15C are both listed with the same Price at Introduction and the 16C is $15 higher. I've no reason to dispute this but am surprised that a buyer would choose the 11C over the 15C as the latter machine would appear to have the more comprehensive features. At the time I bought mine I would never have even considered the 16C as I just had no need for that kind or arithmetic.

Re: 10C Series Original Prices Message #2 Posted by Eric Smith on 25 Jan 2007, 5:53 p.m., in response to message #1 by SteveH The 15C and 16C were introduced later than the 11C and 12C. When the 15C was introduced, the 11C price was dropped.

Re: 10C Series Original Prices Message #3 Posted by DougT on 25 Jan 2007, 10:20 p.m., in response to message #2 by Eric Smith Yep, the 11C was cheaper when the 15C came out. I forked out the extra $$ when I bought my 15C new in '82, and sure did love it the first time we needed to invert a matrix in heat transfer class. Good times, good times...

Re: 10C Series Original Prices Message #4 Posted by megarat on 26 Jan 2007, 6:10 p.m., in response to message #3 by DougT So, was the 16c really priced a few $$ higher than the 15c? That would be interesting ... I understand that quality specialty instruments can be more expensive than general-purpose instruments, but I figured that the extra memory in the 15c would result in a higher cost. (Especially considering memory costs back then.)

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