HP 71 vs 71B

[Raymond Del Tondo]

(11-27-2018 08:09 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  More modern HP stuff the A/B/C suffix was usually a small product differentiation. Take an inkjet printer and the A might have been a typical retail channel model and came with some software for making "holiday" cards and such. The B model might have been a VAR reseller and the enclosed CD would be webjetAdmin. The C model would be the Walmart one with no additional software for extra cost savings.

Could it have been similar back then, just different packaging/options?

Or take a ThinkJet inkjet printer, where the different options (A,B,C,D,P) stand for different interface types (HP-IB, HP-IL, Centronics, Serial, Centronics battery powered;-)

See: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/bpd02084