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Bring Back the HP 15C Scientific Calculator

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Chris W

Jan 1, 1970
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Please forgive this intrusion, I thought someone in your field
(engineering, math, or science) might be interested in this.

There is an effort underway to get Hewlett Packard to start making the
15C, or a similar model again. A web site with a petition has been
setup. If you are like the others who have already given their support,
and would love to have a well made calculator like the 15C available
again, please take a moment to go to the web site and sign the petition.
If you are not familiar with the HP 15C, the web site will tell you
more about it and why it is the best scientific calculator for everyday
use. At least one member of the calculator planning department at HP is
sympathetic to the cause, and will argue the case to those who make the
decisions, however, many more signatures are needed, so please tell
anyone you know who would also benefit from a quality calculator like
the 15C, to check out the web site.

http://hp15c.org

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Chris W

Bring Back the HP 15C
http://hp15c.org

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Jerry Greenberg

Jan 1, 1970
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They would have to have a huge request for these, considering what a
production run would cost. The fact that they did not make this unit
for many years, will also force them for some expensive retooling and
retraining new assembly people. This is going to be very expensive on
their part.

Take consideration that if they do such a run, the price will be
probably the same as or more than it was many years ago, but in our
dollars of today. Don't be surprised if this calculator will be in the
many hundreds of dallars each.

Jerry G.
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Rich Webb

Jan 1, 1970
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There is an effort underway to get Hewlett Packard to start making the
15C, or a similar model again. A web site with a petition has been
setup.

Never happen. There is no longer a "Hewlett Packard." There is a
marketing organization selling PC clones and printers pretending to be
Hewlett Packard.
 
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Karl Uppiano

Jan 1, 1970
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Rich Webb said:
Never happen. There is no longer a "Hewlett Packard." There is a
marketing organization selling PC clones and printers pretending to be
Hewlett Packard.

I think they did revive production the 32s, which was the last RPN
calculator in production when it was discontinued a few years ago. I don't
think you can ask for more than that. I still love using my 32s and my 11C.
 
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Karl Uppiano

Jan 1, 1970
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Karl Uppiano said:
I think they did revive production the 32s, which was the last RPN
calculator in production when it was discontinued a few years ago. I don't
think you can ask for more than that. I still love using my 32s and my
11C.

My11C, by the way, is on its second set of batteries. The first set died
after a couple of years. The second set is 15 years and counting.
 
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Robert Baer

Jan 1, 1970
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Karl said:
I think they did revive production the 32s, which was the last RPN
calculator in production when it was discontinued a few years ago. I don't
think you can ask for more than that. I still love using my 32s and my 11C.

The 32S *is* the "cats meow"; i was fortunate enough to trade for one,
and after 2 years it is still operating on the batteries that were in it
when i got it.
If they wer going to "re-do" any of them, i vote for the 32S.
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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Chris W said:
Please forgive this intrusion, I thought someone in your field
(engineering, math, or science) might be interested in this.

There is an effort underway to get Hewlett Packard to start making the
15C, or a similar model again. A web site with a petition has been
setup. If you are like the others who have already given their support,
and would love to have a well made calculator like the 15C available
again, please take a moment to go to the web site and sign the petition.
If you are not familiar with the HP 15C, the web site will tell you
more about it and why it is the best scientific calculator for everyday
use. At least one member of the calculator planning department at HP is
sympathetic to the cause, and will argue the case to those who make the
decisions, however, many more signatures are needed, so please tell
anyone you know who would also benefit from a quality calculator like
the 15C, to check out the web site.

http://hp15c.org

For my money, the best calculator ever made for electronics use is the
Casio FX-61F. Specifically designed for electronics with an impedance
mode among other gems like dedicated inductance, capacitance, phase,
and frequency keys. You can't beat the parallel key though, every
calculator should have one.
Solar powered too, none of this rubbish about battery replacement.

Dave :)
P.S. No, I never did get used to RPN. Just doesn't feel right :->
 
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Rich Webb

Jan 1, 1970
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For my money, the best calculator ever made for electronics use is the
Casio FX-61F.

I've given up on Casios in frustration over their insistence on having
the base conversion functions in a different "mode." I guess it's a
valid approach to getting more functions bound to the keys but flipping
between COMP and BASE-N modes just seem to get in the way of getting
work done...
 
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David L. Jones

Jan 1, 1970
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Rich Webb said:
I've given up on Casios in frustration over their insistence on having
the base conversion functions in a different "mode." I guess it's a
valid approach to getting more functions bound to the keys but flipping
between COMP and BASE-N modes just seem to get in the way of getting
work done...

For sure. Always depends on what work you mostly do.
Sadly, you can never have everything.
There are many useless keys that happily sit there on every scientific
calculator taking up valuable space. Ones like the HYP and
Degrees/Minutes/Seconds keys for instance - useless for most general
applications (YMMV).
Wierd and impractical layouts abound. Even on the beloved HP15C - X2,
Ln, and Log are on shift keys - what a pain!
Even the 61FX sacrifices a few valuable keys to shift mode to make way
for the electronic keys.

I have yet to find my perfect electronics engineering calculator...

Dave :)
 
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Robert Baer

Jan 1, 1970
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David L. Jones said:
For my money, the best calculator ever made for electronics use is the
Casio FX-61F. Specifically designed for electronics with an impedance
mode among other gems like dedicated inductance, capacitance, phase,
and frequency keys. You can't beat the parallel key though, every
calculator should have one.
Solar powered too, none of this rubbish about battery replacement.

Dave :)
P.S. No, I never did get used to RPN. Just doesn't feel right :->

Just think of a well-endowed woman . . . . stacked!
 
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Ben Moss

Jan 1, 1970
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Sadly, you can never have everything.
There are many useless keys that happily sit there on every scientific
calculator taking up valuable space.

Does your HP not have reassignable keys? Both my HP41CX and HP48GX
have this feature. The HP41 even came with overlays, so that you
could write your new key assignments above the key!

Good, RPN is.
-Ben
 
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