HP's Calculator Website

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(08-10-2020 10:43 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  

(08-06-2020 01:23 PM)frontier Wrote:  I also get the www8.... site. So that settles it. They're not making the effort to market graphing calculators. I also have noticed that HP's support used to be first class, but now it's outsourced overseas. "The times they are a-changin'...."

Back in the HP 65/67 days the only alternative to a programmable calculator was time sharing on a mini or mainframe and that could cost thousands of dollars a month. Today, almost everyone has a smartphone in their pocket that has more computational power than anything widely available back then. Why spend $100-$200 for a dedicated calculator when an emulator can be had for little or no cost? Not only are they cheap, but they are many orders of magnitude faster than the real thing in most cases.

Smartphone emulators work great (I have several on my phone) but they totally miss the intangibles of using a real classic HP machine though. Especially in the tactile department.