My first HP-35 and a happy end

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(09-24-2014 07:32 PM)aurelio Wrote:  Certainly, comparing these 35's boards, keyboard, circuits and connections to the ones of just a few years later (spice series I mean), it's practically unpossible for me: like to compare sky and earth

Maybe the spices represents the low cost project for scientific calculators (31c), but if Ithink to the 34c I can't believe that was made using ribbon connectors and unsoldered connection with all the related problems we quite well know.

It seems actually that the classics (expecially the 35A) were made to live forever while the others not.....

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To me, the technology used by HP in their products during the 70's was superior to most of the other manufacturers.
Ok, maybe Tektronix lab equipment was superior to the equivalent HP ones, but not by much.
Apparently economics and calculator market shrinking dictate that a calculator must be cheap to manufacture in order to be able to sell it...

But at least HP has retained the good click feel on most of their calculator's keyboards, and I salute HP for doing so.
Just look the the other calculator manufacturers... they look "cheap" to me when I put their products side by side with HP machines.