What is a modern-day HP-16C?

[Dave Britten]

(08-22-2018 07:44 PM)edryer Wrote:  The TI-86 is utterly superb as a general math platform, huge number of functions, I believe oddly enough a few more than the TI-89's, and the LCD is superior to the 89's miniature non-changeable font.

I wholeheartedly agree. I think the only three advantages the 89 has are the larger memory, CAS, and more sophisticated programming capabilities (indirection, etc.). Nearly every single other aspect of the machine is inferior to the 86, overall ease of use chief among them. The 85 and 86 are the closest TI has ever gotten to a true "engineer's calculator" in their graphing family. I wish they'd bring back the 86, or make an 87.

If you want RPN:

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi...24677.html

Note that I haven't tried this myself, but it looks awfully promising.

(08-22-2018 07:44 PM)edryer Wrote:  It is my favourite HP, most people who see it think of it as an strange size calculator (or mistake it for an HP12C if they think they are clever). The few (two) people who have gasped, have oddly enough, been pretty well respected Computer Scientists at my local University.

There's nothing odd about that, those are exactly the kind of people I'd expect to be in awe of a 16C.