Re: Bring Back the HP 15C Message #9 Posted by Howard Owen on 26 June 2006, 10:56 p.m., in response to message #8 by Palmer O. Hanson, Jr.
That's pretty interesting!
I imagine that the system design was either free (as in "borrowed") or very cheap. I can only assume that is what attracted the implementor, because heaven knows, it couldn't have been the programming model.
There was a low cost knock-off of the 12C some years back. I never touched one, but the Datafile article left me with the impression it was sub-par in "fit and finish." So even if an HP-15C clone did get made, it would very likely have a toy calculator look and feel.
So my (rather thin) hopes are pinned on calculator enthusiasts somewhere getting together a short production run, and producing an expensive, but reasonable-quality new RPN implementation. I've heard all the naysayers, and I'm willing to concede that my dreams are likely to be deferred, but that doesn't stop me from having them. Good luck to Hugh and OpenRPN, who have yet to produce anything concrete, but have the courage to dream out loud, in public, (at least while the web site is up. 8) and to Eric et. al. who have shown working prototypes of something that might fit the bill.
Regards,
Howard
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