Re: The HP 35S has arrived...

"ppeb" <bpwalsh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Who cares about it being accepted in exams?

Anyone who wants HP to keep making calculators. The "high end" line of HP
calculators (such as the 50g) probably don't begin to generate enough revenue
for HP to keep a calculator division around -- they need the revenues from the
lower-end calculators, and being able to sell those is largely contingent upon
them not being so powerful that they're banned from exams and the large
student market quits buying them.

I'm talking about a major
extension to its usefulness by having offline storage capability, not
to mention sharing programs with other users.

Why not just get a 50g?

I agree it's a little tedious, but people were typing in calculator and
computer programs from printed books and magazines long before "memory card"
was a word in most people's vocabulary.


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