Is This Economics At Work?

[John Garza (3665)]

Complaining about prices of HP calculators?
Oh My, what has the world come to...
Please tell that to those who spent the equivalent of $5,000 back in 1974 for an HP-65.

Serious professionals are attracted to good tools of the trade.
If they have to use a lesser machine for some arcane rules in an exam, so be it - likely temporarily.

What machine do you think they will choose for the remainder of their professional career?

-j