Base Conversion & Logical Operations: Prime vs. 28S/28GX/50g on EASE OF USE

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(08-17-2018 07:56 AM)JDW Wrote:  I still don’t understand why HP put a priority on base conversions on older calculators seeing that those calculators were targeted at students too. Why the change? Do students today no longer need the features that students of yesteryear needed? It seems strange to me.

Actually, the older HP machines were more targeted at engineers than at students. This is one of the reasons why the Prime (and related machines such as the 39gII) is such a radical departure from earlier machines.