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The actuel Prime future...
08-13-2014, 09:33 PM (This post was last modified: 08-13-2014 09:40 PM by jebem.)
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Same scenario in Portugal and Spain.
Year after year we see less and less calculators on shops for people to buy.
HP was the first brand to go away, at least two years ago, and now we see the same happening with Texas, and only Casio is resisting the trend and can be seen in the shops here and there.

This is a sad scenario indeed for us die hard guys from the glorious days of portable computing.

Apparently what people wants these days are pocket smartphones, many sporting more processing power than many 90's super workstations, where anyone can install hundreds of applications including calculator programs (some of them really nice and powerful - algebraic, RPN, CAS, make your choice or better than that, install all of them!).

So who cares about classic calculators these days?

The education market stills consumes calculators at specific countries around the world, as long as it complies to very rigid specifications to be accepted by the official establishment.
But even at basic school computers did take over calculators some years ago.
Most of the students are native Internet users - they expect any device to be connected - that's it.
It is a matter of time until the establishment/teachers stops forcing the use of dedicated devices such as a calculator as a tool in education.

I grew up at school in the 70's using calculators because computers were rare and only available at large enterprises.
I'm a small collector in electronic devices, that's why I'm interested in them.
Otherwise I use a computer for any kind of calculations since the 80's, and never miss a calculator.

On a more positive note, the HP-PRIME is easy to acquire - just browse the usual Internet portals, starting by eBay.
That's how I got mine.

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The actuel Prime future... - Marcel - 08-13-2014, 03:49 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Marcel - 08-13-2014, 04:24 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - jebem - 08-13-2014 09:33 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - rprosperi - 08-14-2014, 12:24 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - CR Haeger - 08-14-2014, 01:38 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - aurelio - 08-27-2014, 07:25 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - aurelio - 08-28-2014, 06:29 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - eried - 08-14-2014, 03:08 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Marcel - 08-14-2014, 12:30 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - jebem - 08-14-2014, 11:14 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Marcel - 08-14-2014, 11:04 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - John P - 08-17-2014, 03:21 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Sukiari - 05-14-2015, 07:11 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - debrouxl - 08-17-2014, 05:51 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - jebem - 08-17-2014, 06:59 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - debrouxl - 08-17-2014, 07:14 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - akmon - 08-17-2014, 09:48 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - debrouxl - 08-18-2014, 05:58 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Marcel - 08-18-2014, 11:00 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - walter b - 08-19-2014, 04:27 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - walter b - 08-20-2014, 08:58 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - eried - 08-20-2014, 10:17 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - walter b - 08-26-2014, 04:17 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - walter b - 08-27-2014, 08:32 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - parisse - 05-14-2015, 06:08 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Sukiari - 05-14-2015, 07:18 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - parisse - 05-14-2015, 07:57 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Sukiari - 06-10-2015, 09:55 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - parisse - 05-15-2015, 07:05 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Angus - 06-11-2015, 07:50 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - dbbotkin - 06-11-2015, 07:45 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Arno K - 06-17-2015, 08:53 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - jebem - 06-17-2015, 11:03 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Marcio - 06-17-2015, 12:49 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - ww63 - 06-17-2015, 12:47 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Marcio - 06-17-2015, 12:53 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Tugdual - 06-17-2015, 04:14 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Tugdual - 06-17-2015, 07:00 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - akmon - 06-18-2015, 06:45 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Tugdual - 06-18-2015, 09:42 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - akmon - 06-18-2015, 10:03 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Tugdual - 06-18-2015, 12:08 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - debrouxl - 06-18-2015, 05:35 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - akmon - 06-18-2015, 07:31 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Arno K - 06-18-2015, 08:20 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Tugdual - 06-18-2015, 08:53 PM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Arno K - 06-30-2015, 11:34 AM
RE: The actuel Prime future... - Tugdual - 07-09-2015, 01:21 PM



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