Re: Have no thought for the 'morrow Message #9 Posted by Jeff Kearns on 2 Mar 2012, 7:26 p.m., in response to message #8 by Mike Morrow
Just kidding with my title-pun... Your rants about the inadequacies in design and styling of the post-classic models from '86 on (except for the venerable HP 42s) are most amusing.
I do not share 'all' your views, except for the superiority of the 42s capabilities as a pure RPN calculator. If only its display contrast was on par with either the 15C or the 32sii... Maybe it is simply because the 15C was my first HP (used in university - Mechanical Engineering); but I still prefer it as a daily tool. I admittedly have not fully mastered the 42s and may change my preference one day.
I own two HP 42s calculators. One of these days I would like to increase the memory of one of them to 32K. But I wonder what good that will do if I have a catastrophic MEM CLR? Having to manually re-enter all the programs that would have to be saved as a paper backup is a daunting thought.
Jeff Kearns
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