Engineering achievements

[Hlib]

(02-08-2021 09:07 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello!
In the 1990ies I occasionally flew for a guy who owned an aeroplane but knew nothing about flying himself. His business was to buy former Soviet intercontinental missliles (without warheads, electronics and propellant of course) as scrap metal and have them turned into satellite dishes for TV reception. Back then, a satellite dish was still quite expensive, so he could afford his own aeroplane... I always found that a good way to dispose of weapons of mass destruction: Turn them into communication devices.
Regards
Max

Your story is worthy of a feature film on Discovery Science or on How To Do. Give me a lot of money, and I`ll raise dinosaurs on my own farm somewhere in Antarctica. I have seen similar information in fake news such as: Russia launches satellites using upgraded ballistic missiles. But in reality, this never happened. The space program in Russia is developing on newer technologies. However, this is our era from the Corrupted News Network (CNN).
Obsolete engineering achievements were sold by the former Soviet Union to Pakistan, Iran, China and India. Why did Iran not suffer the fate of Iraq and Libya? Only thanks to Engineering Achievements in the field of rocket science, which he really has now.

(02-07-2021 03:17 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello Hlib,
Because (no this is my personal view only of course) they made two big mistakes:
1. The prices of hp calculators of those years were about double compared to those of the competition, which made them unaffordable to large parts of their target clientele. I myself was a "victim" of that pricing policy because as a student in the 1980ies I could simply not afford an hp (among students "hp" stood for "high price" then...)...

Regards
Max

Why doesn`t HP currently produce expensive quality calculators like it used to? I would buy an HP-Prime NE (new adition) for even $899 if it was worth it. Once upon a time, HP produced good oscilloscopes, printers, calculators, and mini-computers of the m Jornada series. Now - the usual cheap consumer goods at an inflated cost. China today produces the TI-89 and TI-85 clones of fairly good quality, which are in demand. We could also buy HP-41C/CX/48GX clones now for $70 instead of the dreaded HP-35s/39gs/39gii dregs, if the HP-41C/CX/48GX had at least minimal financial demand in the RPN fan market.
Edit: not HP-85, but TI-85.