My first HP41!

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(11-26-2015 06:46 PM)aurelio Wrote:  Congratulations for your restoring work, what a satisfaction to see it still alive!!
It's a tall key if i'm not wrong, congratulations twice

Indeed it is!

Thanks! As I think it will be, mainly, a collectors item, it's great that it is a tall keys one.

(11-26-2015 07:42 PM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  Nice work! I spy a 32sii in those pictures, my favorite HP calculator. How do you like the 41C compared to that?

You are rigth!

I also love the 32SII. It is my usual work calculator (althoug I try to change it from time to time: 27S, 30B, 15CLE... it always comes back, as the others always have some flaw). Only when I work with power lines I go for the 48G, as the "small ones" can not beat it when using complex numbers in polar form (maybe a 42S could, but I have not found a "cheap enough" one yet).

Regarding to your question... I have little experience with the 41 up to know (still reading the manuals), but I find it quite complex to use, having most options "hidden"... I feel that it requires a long time to see what are the most used functions, so you can assign to the rigth places, remember them... not to say that I feel it has less functions than the 32 (have to finish the manuals, anyway).

It is also quite slow compared with the pioneers... probably not enough slow to affect to my work, but it feels a bit strange to press SIN and wait for half a secondto get the answer. I don't think it will take the place of th 32SII in my office!

(*) I hope nobody shots me in the back when leaving home for saying such things about the 41 ;-)