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List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards
01-30-2021, 06:13 PM
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RE: List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards
(01-30-2021 02:19 AM)Sanjeev Visvanatha Wrote:  
(01-29-2021 03:46 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  The HP-16C emulator for the 48 was written by Jake Schwartz and Rick Grevelle, and can be found here:

http://www.pahhc.org/mul8r.htm

I would LOVE to have one of the original manuals, if anyone has one available for trade or sale, please contact me.

Thanks Bob! Looks like it comes with the overlay also. Will contact Jake about it.

Here's a short history - There was a time around 1993 (just after the 48G/GX came out) when HP was considering adding this to their arsenal of HP48 cards. We had been communicating with Dennis York at the time and he was about to order 50 copies of the card and 50 printed manuals for review purposes, and I was on the verge of having additional manuals printed. We also did early work on a new version of the software with a keyboard arrangement more in sync with the G series and a new keyboard overlay was being designed. However right around that same time, there was a major shakeup in Corvallis and the calculator group was shifted under management in Singapore. (An early result of that change produced the 38G in 1995, which had a split development team in Singapore and the U.S. I am sure Jim Donnelly and Diana Byrne have a few stories regarding that experience.) Around the time the HP deal fell through, sales remained very low, so the decision was made to switch the paper documentation to files on a CD-ROM disk. For what it is worth, the product was also being sold by EduCALC and it appeared in catalogs 59 through 64, before they gave up on it. In any case, the new software development was abandoned and a new overlay was never made (since the cost of manufacture was rather high). There are still copies of the original overlay, since we originally had a couple hundred made.

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RE: List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards - JDW - 07-19-2016, 08:02 AM
RE: List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards - JDW - 07-19-2016, 09:50 AM
RE: List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards - cruff - 07-19-2016, 11:50 AM
RE: List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards - Jake Schwartz - 01-30-2021 06:13 PM
RE: List of HP 48SX & 48GX cards - JDW - 07-25-2016, 05:31 AM
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