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HP Prime or HP 50g
07-13-2018, 12:39 AM (This post was last modified: 07-13-2018 01:41 AM by JDW.)
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(07-12-2018 02:46 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  
(07-12-2018 02:34 PM)JDW Wrote:  "Some of us"
I think that answers your own question. Unfortunately there are NOT enough people who want that to justify the cost in paying to print, stock and sell such a small volume item. That is just the harsh reality of modern business. :/

Why not innovate and create a tie-up with an on-demand printing service so your HP calculator users need only order a manual (for a fee, naturally) and have that order fulfilled by the outsourced printing service? It's 2018. Surely something like that must exist, even if its outside the USA.

With that said, human beings are quite predictable. We love "retro." If we didn't, the NES Classic and similar would have proved to be market failures. Surprisingly, they weren't. As such, I think HP might surprise its own marketing department by surprising HP calculator fans by offering "the HP manuals of old" once again, even if they are outsourced. Please don't treat this suggestion flippantly. If you've not tried it, you cannot say it would fail. There's a reason we've not yet replaced every single paper textbook in schools for digital screens (and probably never will). Paper is here to stay. It's just a matter of will (your will over your marketing department) to use paper or not. (And yes, trees are indeed a renewable resource.)

While on the topic of marketing departments, is there a logical reason why HP limits sales of its Prime outside the USA? When I visit the HP Japan website (Japanese language site), the Prime is no where to be found among other HP calculators, but the Prime does appear when I manually search for it. However, on the HP Japan web store, the Prime is no where to be found. I find that quite curious, especially since HP took the time and expense to make the Prime UI switchable to Japanese.


(07-12-2018 04:35 PM)Jean-Baptiste Boric Wrote:  ...the NumWorks calculator with a couple of hardware mods could theoretically have the guts required to emulate an HP Prime calculator and "run" an early HP Prime firmware ...

So what prevents one from emulating the 50g on a Prime?

My thinking is, even if you could emulate a 50g or Numworks on a Prime, the KEYS of those respective calculators are so different that you are not giving the user the REAL DEAL experience with your emulation. The same holds true if you were to emulate a Prime or 50g on a NUMWORKS. If the physical keys are radically different, I myself cannot see any meaning to the emulation. Emulating an old OS on a new computer is one thing, but emulating one calculator on another where the keys are different is yet another. I don't see the benefits.
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HP Prime or HP 50g - Voldemar - 03-18-2014, 08:53 PM
RE: HP Prime or HP 50g - DrD - 03-18-2014, 09:18 PM
RE: HP Prime or HP 50g - Voldemar - 03-18-2014, 09:41 PM
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RE: HP Prime or HP 50g - Tim Wessman - 03-19-2014, 02:26 PM
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