HP-95 ! She exists! :-)

[Thomas Okken]

I wonder, how many of those printing calculators did HP actually sell, compared to their non-printing equivalents? How many 97s vs. 67s, 19Cs vs. 29Cs, 91s vs. 21s, 92s vs. 22s? (I know those last two pairs aren't really equivalent, but still.)

A printer is great when you need it, but a built-in printer makes a calculator somewhat (19C) or a lot (all the topcats) less portable.

TI appears to have gotten this right early, with their PC-100 printer, and HP eventually followed suit with the 82143, 82162, and 82240. The Corvallis division never made another printing calculator after the topcats.

Killing the 95C before its release, and not creating a 67C, was probably because the 41C was already on the drawing board by then, at least as a rough outline.

(And HP out-TI'd TI with the 41C, in that not just the printer, but even the card reader became an add-on. Which I was very happy about, back in 1979!)