Anything as good as a 50g?

[burkhard]

(02-03-2019 11:02 PM)Leviset Wrote:  Although I’ll probably get evicted from The HPCC for this but I’ve not used a really modern calculator that’s better than the TI-nSpire CAS but I think the top retro style scientific & programmable calculators (but no colour visual graphs) running at a modern day speed are the WP34S, the HP-41CL (if you’ve got a spare £700 lying around) or the SwissMicro DM-42L.

Those are all great suggestions, but a small quibble--your pricing on the 41CL seems super high.
I bought the kit just about 1 year ago for
41CL board $235
serial port connector $25
serial port cover $6
serial cable $6
replacement rubber feet/screws (optional) $5
US shipping (with tracking and insurance) $12
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$289 for the kit. This would have been $38 extra for tracked/insured UK shipping instead.

The donor calculator itself was a nice fullnut CV I bought off the auction site at the same time for $89. Yeah, that was a pretty good price for a nice one with zero corrosion, but I do occasionally see them as Buy-It-Nows. A decent & cheap plain 41C (which is just as good to make a CL) is more common of course.

So my total outlay was $378, which would have been $416 with UK shipping on the CL kit.
That works out I think to about £320.
It's still not cheap, but that's less than ½ of the £700 you offered. A 41CL is really a must-have for any die-hard 41 fan, so I'd hope the lower number scares away a few less people. The conversion process is very easy as well.