Re: How to suggest features to the hp calculator team?

Username Localhost wrote:
Look again. They were correcting the error in the 2006 version, not
adding it.

You're right. I unfairly blamed HP. I guess I saw the 128K on the one with
0.9 and assumed I was looking at the old one. :)

BTW, I'm quite impressed by the selection of images on the commerce
site. It is quite rare to see any commerce site with decent photos of
the products these days.

It disappointed me too, that there was no good historical record of these
products. For calculator collectors, seeing how things were in the past
might be very interesting. Plus, from a consumer point of view, it is
sometimes incredibly difficult to see the details of a product before you
buy it if the web site selling it just has a little tiny photo, and nothing
(aside from actually holding the product in your hands) can substitute for a
high-resolution photo.

Last fall I wanted to start making pages about each of the HP calculators to
put on my web site, since HP doesn't have much good information on their web
site. I ended up just putting it on the commerce site; I'll add them to the
main site eventually, but I have some other things I want to finish first,
since the infrastructure isn't there for them yet.

I built a light box (about $25 in parts from Home Depot and an arts/crafts
store), set it on my kitchen counter, set up my tripod and 4-year-old
digital camera, and photographed everything. Then I spent probably 30+
hours writing detailed specifications for each calculator, cleaning up all
the photographs, and putting it into web pages. I also have a bunch of
photographs I took of other models in my collection, and I'll eventually
bring those online too, when I have a place to put them on the site.

Interestingly, that relatively minimal effort approximately doubled my
calculator sales. After the secondary boost caused by adding the shopping
cart in January, I now handle about one order a day. Doesn't pay the bills,
but it's a fun little thing on the side. :)

Regards,

Eric Rechlin


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