HP 10g

[Jake Schwartz]

(09-12-2015 06:11 PM)Joseph_21sv Wrote:  HP released a 9s scientific calculator more or less in tandem with the 9g graphing calculator, that being a clone of the Casio fx-6000G series. However, there has not yet been a 10g graphing calculator to go along with the 10s(+). Did HP ever even plan such a calculator? If not, what, if any, was the reasoning behind this? If so, why would HP have "forgotten" about that plan and what might have been in it?

Here is my two cents: As you indicated, the 9s and 9g were basically similar to other manufacturers' machines, and therefore I believe that HP had not "designed" these machines in their own R&D facilities; but purchased another manufacturer's designs and labelled them as their own, releasing them on Jan 23, 2003. (Clearly, they don't resemble anything else HP had done before or since, with the exception of the 30s, released three years earlier on April 7, 2000; and the 30s succeeded the 6s and 6s Solar units form April of 1999.) I believe that the 10s (released on Sept 4, 2007) was a "refreshed" version of the 8s (released 1/1/2006) and probably had nothing to do with the 9s or 9g from four years earlier. To me, the whole time period from 1999 to 2007 seemed like a turbulent time at HP where they were attempting to gain some sort of a foothold on the low-end scientific market some way. Yes, the 33S (from 2004 and the 35s (from 2007) were also happening during this time, but these two units were more costly and complex and represented more of a "mid-line" scientific range.

Jake