Re: Why Did You Choose HP?

I actually chose HP thanks to Robert Hildinger. Before I started using
actual HP hardware I did all of my calculations on my Palm III. There
are now tons of calculators for that platform, and while I was coming
up through college I kept downloading the latest and greatest calc
apps that people were writing. (EasyCalc and Powerone are the work
horses which immediately come to mind). I survived Calc I with
EasyCalc (No CAS! I had no idea how easy the TI kids had it), but
halfway through Calc II, I saw a screenshot of Power48 on some Palm
forum and couldn't believe my eyes. At that time, Power48 was in the
alpha or beta stage, I think, so I decided to buy an hp 49g+ after
figuring out what the hp 49 was (CAS!!). And compared to the hp 49
Power48 was emulating, I thought the hp 49g+ was one of the classiest
looking calcs I'd ever seen. (Yes, I like the hp 49g+ styling more
than the hp 50g). So after pitching out $150 on a relative unknown,
turns out my first hp calculator was the current model with serious
production issues.

Power48 (http://www.mobilevoodoo.com/index.htm)
EasyCalc (http://easycalc.sourceforge.net/)
PowerOne Graphy (http://www.infinitysw.com/products/
poweronegraph.html)

If it wasn't for the legend of HP, their service department, and all
of the moral and technical support here, I probably would have
switched to TI before receiving my third replacement hp 49g+.
(Happily, my fourth hp 49g+ replacement was an hp 50g).

Scary part is, if Robert had completed a TI emulator for Palm first I
might have never visited this newsgroup or the MoHPC forum.



Regards,
Pal

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