NEW: HP 15C Collectors Edition

[Valentin Albillo]

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Hi, all,

My HP-15C CE arrived today, just 21 hours (!!) since Divasson (The Calculator Store, Barcelona, Spain) posted: "Arrived to Spain - now shipping to all customers !". That's incredibly fast !

It came exceedingly well packaged and protected, in immaculate condition, pristine packaging and calc. Also, it included batteries already installed, as expected, so I gave it a go. First impressions:

- The display looks very good, clear and very contrasty. The calc proper feels solidly built.

- I tried all the keys several times each, including 10 keypresses in quick succession for every digit. No problems whatsoever, i.e. no repeated keys, no debouncing problems. All keys seem perfectly Ok, no rattling either, they feel very close to the original unit.

- I tried a simple program which merely stored a given number of repetitions in register I and keep decrementing it in a loop till reaching 0. I timed it manually and it ran 5,000 loops in about 9 seconds, which is consistent with my expectations based on published messages.

All in all, I'm extremely pleased with it and have nothing but praise for José G. Divasson and his small familiar business (The Calculator Store) for delivering such a nice product so well protected in 21 hours flat since he told us they had arrived. Sending ~1,000 packages to customers must have been a logistic nightmare for him !!

BTW, mine is #00236, which as all of you know it's FP(√5) to three places (no decimal separator), which befits my icon here ...

Best regards.
V.
Edit: typos.