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1 HN user recommended this in 2011, in 2 comments.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2011, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
That's nothing. The HP12C is thirty years old and still lists for $70.
In other words, it was cutting edge in 1981 along with the original IBM PC.
[http://www.amazon.com/HP-12c-Financial-Calculator-12C/dp/B00...]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-10C_series#HP-12C]
What the Newton didn't do was fit in a pocket - that's what the PC1, the Palm Pilot, and my Handspring with a tumor all did.
How important is that? Well almost 30 years later, HP still sells the 12C. And the margin is astronomical.
[http://www.amazon.com/HP-12c-Financial-Calculator-12C/dp/B00...]