Your First Handheld?

[Dave Britten]

(05-13-2014 12:15 AM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  Having both 28s (no pun intended) (C and S), my pet peeve of bad design is/was the battery compartment. It did and does lead to some very frustrating battery changing routines, not to mention the awkward choice of N cell necessity. PS-NEVER, NEVER make the mistake of putting in A23/23A sized cells in--thus another reason I find the battery choice for this clamshell lineage a bad move from HP.

I find the nearly useless amount of memory in the 28C to be the biggest problem among the clamshell line. You literally cannot write any programs of substance, as the RPL interpreter won't have enough memory to compile it and save over the old version.

But for the 28S and 19BII, those are all extremely valid criticisms. Fortunately in both cases, you can just get an entirely better machine, and it's usually the cheaper option! A 48S is normally cheaper than a good condition 28S, and ditto for a 95LX vs. a 19BII. You lose out on 82240 printer compatibility with the 95LX I think, but gain a ton of other stuff.

But my goodness was that ever a horrible battery compartment design on those clamshells.