From: John H Meyers on
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:59:05 -0600:

> Many people use the 48-50 for advanced math,
> while other people use them for engineering calculations.....
> In my opinion HP made a mistake by developing a calculator
> which can do both jobs....

And threw in finance, too (TVM solver),
making it unnecessary to buy three different calculators,
and made it so customizable, and so capable of easy development
of add-on software libraries, that it must have cut into
sales of different models for every purpose under heaven.

Good thing they didn't think of developing a general purpose computer :)

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