Is RPN still relevant?

[Katie Wasserman]

(10-06-2015 06:07 AM)brouhaha Wrote:  The only significant market for RPN calculators is the HP-12C, and that's only because it was so much better than the competing financial calculators of the time that it set a standard. If there was actually any non-trivial education market for RPN or RPL calculators, TI, Casio, and Sharp would be making them.

I agree, but it's a serious market, maybe not a lot of money for HP but still a lot of unit sales. A high percentage of people in the financial world, including real estate, use these and would be lost without them. HP has tried several times to replace it with significantly better and easier to use models and has failed. The 19b, 17b, 20/30b have all come and gone and yet the 12c survives. In addition there are been several clones of the 12c. If it wasn't a very significant part of the overall calculator market those clones would not exist.

I love the fact that in this new smart phone every 1 or 2 years world that the humble 12c has managed to virtually never change as it goes into it's 35th year of continuous production.