HP and the Surveying industry

[RMollov]

(10-21-2015 03:10 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote:  It is interesting that at the time this article was written, the HP49g was already 5 years old and the 49g+ was one year old. And yet I couldn't find any reference to the fact that HP had not given up on graphing calculators...this article seems to imply that the 48 was the end of high-end calc development at HP. And only the following year, Tim Wessman would demonstrate (at the HHC2005 conference in Chicago) the sophisticated surveying equipment based on the 49G+ that he and John Evers had developed.

Jake

Actually I share the spirit of the article. As a (back then) practising surveyor I never took seriously HP49 and its family after. Even today HP48 is the calculator of choice used by most surveyors I know.

BTW all those Sokkisha electronic field books are long since forgotten unlike the great HP48 which is sought after and regarded as a treasure if found.

Regards,