HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[KeithB]

Lets be fair here:
The Prime does have some rudimentary DAQ capabilities with the smart stream 410 - which I guess is still around.

I don't see why they couldn't have created a GPIB bridge.

The problem is that it was focused on the education market. There is no current market for calculator based instrument control. Except, maybe, for Garth. 8^)