HP Calculator Highlights since the 1980

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(04-04-2018 02:43 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Also, many (most?) VARs did not trust selling their valuable and expensive programs written in BASIC, as the security was easily broken and programs (and even full ROM modules) were easily copied, so it was very hard to prevent theft and copying by unscrupulous customers, many of whom had no idea they were breaking the law.

Thanks is a big point indeed

(04-04-2018 04:21 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  As someone already wrote above, the 71B was very expensive. Breathtakingly expensive. I remember from my university days in the early/mid 1980ies (when I would not have been able to buy a 41C which cost around 600-800 German Mark depending on which accessories one took) that I used to stop at a surveying supply shop which was on my way and look at their display of HP calculators. When the 71B came out it had a price tag short of 2000 German Mark, three times as much as a 41. No wonder they sold so few. The competition (Casio, Sharp) had BASIC programmable calculators similar in size and basic features of the 71B which sold for 1/4 or less.

Woah! That puts things in perspective. I thought that was as expensive as the 41C, being the 41C already expensive