Ten classic electronic calculators

[Thomas Okken]

(10-12-2020 05:43 PM)Wes Loewer Wrote:  

(10-10-2020 12:13 PM)hp41cx Wrote:  Ten classic Link

Then I guess I'm a "classic" guy as I had/have 3 of them.

Texas Instruments TI-35 (The TI-30 was actually much more popular at my high school)
Hewlett-Packard HP-41C (CV & CX actually)
Hewlett-Packard HP-28C


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.

Me too! I owned three of them when they were new. Or close enough, anyway: the Sinclair Scientific was the precursor of the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable and came in the same sci-fi looking housing and had the same slow and inaccurate transcendentals. And I bought a 41C and a 28S as soon as they came out. Totally agree that the 28C/28S were revolutionary, even though I went back to plain old RPN in the shape of the 42S not long after.