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(06-15-2024 11:05 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  I am at the backorder story. In the most extreme, buyers would need to wait a year and a half.

Buyers never had to wait a year and a half to get their order fulfilled, the maximum backlog delay I’ve seen mentioned was 12 weeks which is already a lot. What happened was that the demand for the HP-35 exceeded the forecast by a factor of four and despite the ramp increase the production trailed this demand, so there was a rolling backlog for several months (18 months according to the article) until the production caught up with the demand.