HP50g availability

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The 50g is not always available at thecalculator store, so grab them while you can!

I think there is value from purchasing from an enthusiast as Divasson knows how to identify typical issues on pre-sale inspection.

I'm happy to see that the 50g still is popular in European engineering programs. I assumed Casio had the market cornered.

I have black and a blue 50g models (not purchased from Divasson):

- These are fun devices. There are a lot of teaching guides online.

- I've grown to like the blue colour scheme a lot.

- I find the buttons on both the blue and the black models easy to read.

- The form factor is incredibly comfortable to hold in one hand whilst typing with the other hand. The 50g looks better in person than in photos; pretty good. HP must have hired a third-party industrial engineer like IDEO. I still prefer HPs older design language but the 50g is much nicer than I expected.

- I had no problems getting accustomed to the "enter" button at the lower right hand corner. Still getting used to the upward offset of the basic math operators.

- The keyboard on my blue 50g feels great but that calculator is "essentially new". Maybe there are other factors (e.g. hours of use, revised key designs, revised plastics, different response of the white plastics, revised dampener pad, etc.). The keyboard on my black 50g arrived broken and worn out so is not an ideal comparison (that junk 50g was purchased from TAS, NOT Divasson).