HP Calculator Highlights since the 1980

[Maximilian Hohmann]

(04-04-2018 01:31 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Anyway I'm surprise there even with basic and a lot of ram available, people kept using the 41c .

As someone already wrote above, the 71B was very expensive. Breathtakingly expensive. I remember from my university days in the early/mid 1980ies (when I would not have been able to buy a 41C which cost around 600-800 German Mark depending on which accessories one took) that I used to stop at a surveying supply shop which was on my way and look at their display of HP calculators. When the 71B came out it had a price tag short of 2000 German Mark, three times as much as a 41. No wonder they sold so few. The competition (Casio, Sharp) had BASIC programmable calculators similar in size and basic features of the 71B which sold for 1/4 or less.