"Hewlett Packard" not on the front of HP12c Platinum

[Eric Rechlin]

I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.

No, not saying "Hewlett-Packard" on the front won't be rare. That's how all the ones produced since early 2022 are.

As I said before, this change was due to HP no longer having the right to the Hewlett-Packard name, which were actually lost some years ago, but HP had an agreement to allow it to remain on the 12c until things could get changed, which was a bit over a year ago.

Recent Australian regulations require a screw on the battery door. I don't know when this took effect, but we started seeing the updated calculators with a screwy battery door last year also. I had previously assumed it was at the same time as the faceplate change, but apparently that wasn't the case for the 12c Platinum, because in this thread there's a report of a Platinum that has had the Hewlett-Packard text removed but the screw hasn't yet been added.