HP's Calculator Website

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Aside from the 12C, I reckon calculator sales to professionals is a dying business.

Back in the day, a purchase like an HP-65 or 67 or 41C or similar was a pretty big layout of capital for a machine that you would use for serious computational tasks.

Not anymore.

Most calculators are used at school...and TI owns that market lock, stock, and barrel. To the point that modern textbooks are usually written with instructions for TI calculators only. I was an avid HP user through my schooling and I never once met another one, and teachers were always telling me "you're on your own, I can't help you if you have trouble".

I've met a few more HP enthusiasts professionally, but they seem to be quite rare. Most people just use their computer if they need to do serious computation or their smartphone. I admit that I rarely use my HP-50g anymore for graphing or CAS...I have Maple, MATLAB, and Python for all that. I do use my HP scientific machines regularly though. :o)