HP 12c Platinum 25th Anniversary Limited Edition Hardwood Box Set

[rprosperi]

A number of years ago (10?) there definitely were 12C fake/clone calculators from some knock-off Chinese company being sold, but on close inspection they were not hard to identify.

Unrelated to that, many (many!) people contacted HP technical support over the years about the radix switching 'problem' and in pretty much all cases it was from not following the instructions (which IMHO are pretty clear)

Quote:To do so, turn the calculator off, then press and hold down the [.] key while you press [ON]

however lots of people hold [ON] and press [.], or press both, etc. leading to these false alarms.

As for the vendor in question, who can say, though I've never heard of a vendor, whcih is selling grey-market goods, not claim that they were 'authorized' to do so.

The concept of a 'bad batch' of units which only exhibit a few obscure s/w issues reflects no reality about how these are manufactured. Sure, some units are bad coming off the line, but only a limited batch of them producing "error 7" or not changing radix mode is pretty remote, but it does sound like something a dealer's tech support might say in order to get an unhappy buyer to accept a swapped unit which is not from the bad batch. Maybe these 2 subtle defects are simply details that the clone maker never caught, and those bad units went on to create a whole story... and here we are 10 years later still discussing it...