Most common calculators in the forum?

[Sylvain Cote]

(11-29-2017 10:55 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(11-29-2017 10:43 PM)pier4r Wrote:  I may have missed it completely (I see the 41 topics but I don't read them much). How come that the 41 is so loved? Should I consider a 41 from swissmicro (since the original, I guess, are super expensive and rare)?

I'm not surprised to see the 41 high in the popularity ranking. When it was introduced in 1979, it instantly made all previous programmable calculators obsolete. The HP/TI rivalry ended in an instant and never really returned. And finally, by the time the 41 was superseded by the RPL calculators, PCs had become so cheap that they destroyed the largest market segment for programmable calculators, namely, people who needed something programmable but couldn't afford a computer.

That's how I remember it, anyway. Even though the 48 series were incredibly impressive machines, they never generated the kind of excitement that the 41 had.

You got it right Thomas.
The things that set apart the HP-41 was that is was a system, like Richard Nelson love to say.
You could add modules, peripherals, etc.
You could used it as a calculator, as a controller of electronic equipments, as a data collector in a surveying environment, etc.
It was a small instant on computer in a form of a calculator that you could customize it (software & hardware) on the fly to fit your need.
I have more than 25 x HP-41C/CV/CX/CL in my collection, including 6 x 41CL and 2 x 41CX halfnut that I still use everyday.
Sylvain