41: Worth getting a card reader?

[David Hayden]

I'll mention another possibility: the barcode reader.

Sure, you can't save programs, but if you type the programs into your PC, you use HP41UC to compile them into RAW files for your emulators and generate barcode to read them into the 41C.

More importantly, you can generate barcode for all the other wonderful programs that are available as RAW files, or use the barcodes that Jackie Woldering created for many programs in PPC.

So basically, a wand means that saving programs is more trouble, but it lets you read far more programs.