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[zeno333]

(12-04-2017 02:05 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  

(12-04-2017 06:49 AM)zeno333 Wrote:  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

The first 20S calculators had injection molded keys as was mentioned in the early manual, so that is an example of a lower priced model that still had inlaid keys. My 20S manual said it had injection molded keys but the actual calculator I got did not have that...That was from a change in "philosophy that was much greater than any change in price for the 20S.