Re: 35s refuses to work (Reasons why the 32Sii is loved) Message #16 Posted by Mike Morrow on 20 Oct 2012, 2:16 p.m., in response to message #15 by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil)
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Not fair comments about the tiny little HP32SII!!!
OK, Luiz, I'll concede that. What really disappointed me in 1997 was that the scientific RPN calculator that HP had selected to remain in their active product line (HP 32Sii) was so inferior in capability to two much older models, one from 1982 (HP-15C) and one from 1987 (HP 42S). It's a sad thing for a company's reputation when their current product line contains nothing better than (or at least as good as) what was available a decade or so earlier! My new HP 32Sii was a symbol to me of that sad state of affairs.
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Indeed the HP42 S is what it is, hands down. Had it a fair I/O structure and full compatibility with the HP41, Hewlett-Packard would be in serious problems when trying to introduce something new.
One suspects that HP considered the HP 42S, a stunning device far exceeding anything that HP had ever made in RPN, to be too great a threat to the RPL product line. But the HP 32Sii??? No threat at all...so offer only that after 1995!
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I prefer to consider the HP32SII a 'proposed' replacement to the HP11C, never to the HP15C.
I agree totally. But after the HP-15C's real successor, the HP 42S, was discontinued in 1995 the HP 32Sii became the default and only successor to the HP-15C.
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The only HP calculators I 'hate the most' are the algebraic-only models.
At the top of my list is the HP 38G, followed by all the Clamshells (especially the HP 28C).
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