Your First Handheld?

[John R]

(05-13-2014 03:54 AM)Mike Morrow Wrote:  It always amazes me when the first ten years of HP calculator design is held up as some sort of golden age. Whenever I hear or read of such an outlook, I'm pretty sure the person stating it has no real knowledge of HP calculator history...at least, as one who actually used them in contemporary times.

In HP calculators, as in other areas, it seems that many of us have a bit of clouded judgment: we tend to look back on the first ones we encountered with often irrational reverence, while holding later releases to an unfairly higher standard. Every HP calculator line has had its strong points and weak points, but you'd never know it just by listening to the people championing or criticizing that particular line.