HP-50gII Discussion (split from 15c CE thread)

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(08-30-2023 05:32 PM)johnb Wrote:  PPS: Maximilian, if it's too soon for a "collector's edition" then don't call it a collector's edition. Just call it the HP-50gII if HP builds it, or the SM-50gII if SwissMicros builds it. Just put me down for a pre-order of two, please!

I was mentioning the "collectors edition" because this thread forked (or "spawned" or whatever it was called in the times of early bulletin-board-systems...) from the HP-15C LE thread. And I guess the 15C LE was brought to us mainly because of it's 40-year anniversary. The 50g is still too new to be even mentioned in the museum section of this site!

Regarding the keys being too small for writing programs in BASIC: The vast majority, by sheer numbers, of contemporary graphing calculars produced must be the line beginning with the Ti-81. Which is still in production with the Ti-84 Plus after nearly 25 years. All programmable in dialects of BASIC, the very latest also in Python, and the keys are no bigger than those of the HP-50g.

Regards
Max