TI’s answer to the 41 and peripherals

[Csaba Tizedes]

What was the TI's reply?

As I can see from here, behind the iron-curtain: TI targeted the educational market, HP stayed at engineering/science fields. When the PCs are flooded the world, at the beginning of the 90's, the TI (easily) swapped to the education and started the monopolization - because they are clearly seen that the HP's calculators was too complex for education, so they can not compete with them.
Also, HP with their system-like calculators can not to compete with the PCs and their calculators market reduced dramatically - the engineers, scientists choosed PCs instead of HPs.

Summarize the above: when TI changed to education, won the race - as we can see it today.

Csaba