Ten classic electronic calculators

[Wes Loewer]

(10-12-2020 06:12 PM)John Keith Wrote:  

(10-12-2020 05:43 PM)Wes Loewer Wrote:  I was shocked to see that the 28C made the HPCC list of HP's worst calculators. I personally view it as one of the most revolutionary calculators HP ever made. Sure, it had limited memory that was quickly addressed by the 28S, but using it was a completely think-outside-the-box experience. If you were ranking calculators by how revolutionary they were for their time, I'd put the 28C right up there with the 35 and the 41.

Being revolutionary and poorly executed are not mutually exclusive; the 28C was both. The 28C was a watershed in calculator design but I would not want to own one, unless I was a collector that had to have one of every HP calculator ever produced.

This discussion reminded me that I never finished watching the video of Bill Wickes's 3 hour Introduction of the 28c (https://videos.hpcalc.org/). If you jump to the 2:05:20 mark you can hear him discussing the issue and the why's of its limited memory.