HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[rprosperi]

(01-12-2024 01:50 AM)Rolief_Rechner Wrote:  

(01-10-2024 03:10 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  They probably really would sell one (maybe even two) to everyone here, but that's sadly still not enough. The problem is, even when counting ALL of us, it's not a significant enough market to make an investment large enough to make an improved 48GX.

You realize the same argument could have been made for not producing the 15CE? Can you hear the marketing types? - 'Who on earth would want a 40-year old machine with a strange design, and a backwards calculation system? Only those old timers in the newsgroup.'

Actually no, not the same situation at all, for many reasons:

The 15C already had proof that a re-issue will sell out quickly: the 15C LE !

The 15C had many more years to gather fans, and it's RPN (vs. RPL) so in demand by a much larger audience.

Finally, in the case of the 15c CE, Moravia could repurpose 12C hardware since it's still in production.

For a new kind of 48GX++, with enhancements, it would mean developing the h/w from scratch and basically redeveloping the ROM, nearly from scratch. So, orders of magnitude more investment would be needed, and I don't believe anyone could justify such. Just my opinion though...