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[Thomas Okken]

(12-04-2017 06:49 AM)zeno333 Wrote:  

(12-04-2017 06:28 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  To put this in perspective: when HP released their first handheld calculator, the HP-35, in 1972, they charged $395 for it. In 2017 dollars, that's roughly $2300. How much did you spend on your latest brand-new calculator?

The previous "quality" philosophy that HP had had nothing to do with the price...It had to do with a certain mindset that applied no matter what the price happened to be...That mindset was rare, and HP was one of the few that had it...(The images on the keys used to be inlaid, this was just one of the "symptoms" of that previous quality mindset.)

And the price "just happened" to be the kind of money where you can afford to provide a lot of after-sale support, and nice details like injection-molded keys.
Right. :-D