HP Prime too complicated

[Thomas Okken]

(07-12-2018 01:07 PM)roadrunner Wrote:  I've been an engineer since 1979 and around engineers my whole life. I can't think of one time I would have wanted to hook a device up to a calculator to log data; other than just for fun.

Using an HP-41 as an equipment controller / data logger made more sense back when computers were still expensive. For many people, a high-end calculator was simply the most powerful tool they could afford.

I always thought that the cheap PC clones that started to appear in the mid-'80s killed most of the market for high-end calculators, leaving only those market segments where easy portability is essential. (And smartphones are probably going to kill those, too, but that's another story...)