Most common calculators in the forum?

[Maximilian Hohmann]

(12-02-2017 05:25 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Surveyors make up a significant number of HP scientific calculator users.

This thread brings back a lot of fond memories :-) Back in my university days I often passed by a shop (or rather: I chose my may so that I would pass by that shop...) which mainly sold surveying gear. Theodolites and tripods and measuring tapes. But it also was the only shop within reach that exhibited some HP calculators. The usual places where one would shop for a calculator (stationary shops and department stores) did not have HP stuff because at those prices they wouldn't have been able to sell it. Or maybe it was the policiy of HP Germany then that they would only supply specialist distributers with their calculators.

I think I briefly mentioned my Compucorp calculators, but for the thread statistics I want to explicitely mention the Compucorp 354 Surveyor - a dedicated programmable calculator with hardwired surveying formulae. With that wonderful orange gas discharge display (Panapelex) which is even better than red LEDs. HP may have won the surveying market in the long run, but certainly never made the most remarkable surveying calculator!

Regards
Max