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I'm happy one can buy a mighty 4-stack RPN calculator today new. Greedily, I wish they had recreated the 32S instead, as it had a single Gold function key and far less busy silk screening. I say this as a former owner of a 32SII. https://www.hpmuseum.org/32s.jpg
Personally I'm hoping for an HP48G or HP50G clone. I still use my 50g and it's great.
Did the Berkeley Graphics ( https://berkeleygraphics.com ) guy design their website? I mean that in a good way.
I keep looking to see if they have the credit card ones back in stock, but they never seem to. A few weeks ago I added an "rpncalc" command to my CLI "swiss army toothpick" program ( https://github.com/linsomniac/toothpyk ): "pyk rc 86500,24/365x" (x == * == multiply). On the one hand I love the HP calculators and have leaned on them heavily in the distant past. On the other hand I like having a clean desktop (3d pri…
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I used an HP-41 for years which finally died. I was really tempted to buy the equivalent from these folks but couldn't justify it given that I use a physical calculator once in a blue moon (and have a good HP-41 app on my iPhone).
FWIW, the best RPN caclulator app I've seen (no Android, just iPhone, sadly...) is the MathU RPN from CreativeCreek. Not only does it successfully combine the scientific, digital, and financial capabilities of the HP 10-series (12c, 15c, 16c) into one calculator, it's also one of the very few RPN apps that really gets the look and feel of HP's keyboard/UI design right. This app is literally the biggest thing still ty…
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48&hl=...
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There's the HP Prime
Prime is a completely different product, because it's aimed at a completely different target group: students, not engineers.
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I'm the opposite on this, I like more labeled functions directly reachable with function buttons and less menu scrolling :) SwissMicros should really do the WP-34s imho: https://commerce.hpcalc.org/images/34s-angle-medium.jpg
32S didn't use menu scrolling though.
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Prime is a completely different product, because it's aimed at a completely different target group: students, not engineers.
Perhaps, but it doesn't mean that it's not the greatest for engineers, of does it? I've used a little bit of both and I don't see myself using anything but a prime nowadays. The new licensee (after HP completely dropped the calculators business 3 years ago or so) just put out a new os version, and there are hopes that another one soon brings up the CAS to a recent version of giac/xcas, which is completely unmatched i…