Hot Deal on the HP 30b calculator

[Raymond Del Tondo]

(01-14-2014 07:14 PM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:  So, it maybe that some of the factory originals are not very good either. The keyboards varied a lot on the five HP 30b's that I bought from from Bach Co., although they all seem to work properly. The 7 key on the first one is soft and has almost no click and some of the others have very noisy and loose keys.

As always, that's the price you pay for cheap calcs. Here a variation of Einsteins's razor applies: "Make things as cheap as possible, but not cheaper";-)

However even the keyboards of the (obviously) much better Pioneer hardware platform showed slight variations in feedback and reliability, but faulty keys weren't as common as in the newer series.