HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[Rolief_Rechner]

(01-12-2024 02:39 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  

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

All your points are good. What is discouraging is the apparent lack of enthusiasm, even from those might enjoy such a machine. Where there's a will there's a way, but the will is missing on this. Which means the probability of it ever happening is essentially zero. Oh well...