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[rprosperi]

Thanks for the detailed comparison Steve, I did not realize the 57 had so many superior features. I'll admit that even if I did know, I still would have gone with the HP-25 as I did then, as the feel, quality and confidence in use were more important features for me than most of these programming improvments. Still, it does stack up well looking back on it.

Your comments about the different style manuals and TI's broader everyday use examples is also quite interesting. I don't know if they reasoned that the lower cost of the device would enable it to be in the hands of a much broader, and less technically-focused set of users, or if this was a deliberate move to intentionally position it for use by this broader base. Whatever the actual truth, I'm sure the later TI marketing revisionists claimed it was the latter, and indeed it did open up their use to a much broader (and larger!) set of users.

Thanks for enabling this different perspective.