Re: OT: 28S prices Message #4 Posted by Mike Morrow on 28 Feb 2012, 12:39 p.m., in response to message #1 by Bart (UK)
With a 35 red dot, 21, 67, 12C, 15C, 41C, and 41CX in my HP stable, I was a early purchaser of the 28C in 1987. It seemed to have potential, but I found it wasn't near ready for prime time. The absurdly small amount of RAM made it useless except for the trivial. Twice a fool, in 1988 I was an early purchaser of the 28S. It turned out that the 28C/S needed a lot more than just memory to be tolerable for any real uses. At least I still had the 15C and 41CX for real work. I had not realized that by 1988, the real gem in the HP line was the HP-42S that HP failed to market competently, no doubt aware it could crush the RPL gimmicks that were being presented (ultimately without success) as "wave of the future". In my electrical engineering career from 1974 to 2011, I personally don't know of any real ad hoc engineering problem whose solution was aided by symbolic calculus on a pocket calculator. I suspect no one does.
I'll say that I like the 28S better than other nonsense like the 38G. Insanity ruled at HP in the 28C to 49G era.
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