Which HP12 to buy?

[Dave Britten]

(03-07-2021 12:58 PM)SlideRule Wrote:  

(03-06-2021 09:11 PM)Siriuslux Wrote:  What do I want to do? Well, I am a mechanical engineer and am going to do an MBA starting in about 10 days from now, so I thought why not get a finance calculator, of course it has to be RPN, …

I am a civil engineer (BSCE) with an MBA (scl) & I used an HP-19BII for my business/finance coursework. Although I have 12C's, 17B's, 20B & 30B finance calcs, my consistent go-to b/f calculator (ever ready at my desk) is a 19BII.

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SlideRule

The 19BII is great, as long as you don't mind the reduced portability of its form factor, or the awful battery door design. But aside from that, it's got a fantastic set of functions. It's also worth mentioning the 95LX, 100LX, and 200LX, which have an "HP Calc" application that encompasses nearly all the functionality of the 19BII, including the solver. I think the 95LX may be lacking bonds and depreciation, but those can be handled using the solver, and you've got a huge screen and a QWERTY keyboard to make entering and editing formulas easier. Granted, the palmtops don't work with the 82240 infrared printer quite as seamlessly.