HP-14B

[rprosperi]

(06-02-2022 03:37 AM)Jlouis Wrote:  Maybe is my lack of expertise, but as I said, I'm curious on why you think these calculators aren't good enough.

I probably should have been more clear here, I was referring to the original 10BII and the latter 17BII, both of which share a common physical design, though with different color schemes. The later version of the former and original version of the latter are both fine machines.

The features of these are fine, but the mechanical and industrial design of these are terrible; the keys are mushy, the key labels cheap looking, the case is flimsy and overall they feel like $3 4-bangers, undermining their generally solid features.

This reimplementation of the 17BII introduced the buggy version of the Pioneer Solver, thus crippling one of its most useful features (for higher end users).

So, these are, IMHO, in the yucky category...