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When the cost difference is large, it becomes a critical point. How many folks buy Rolex watches? In college (1971 - 1975), I saw the HP-35/45/55/65 all bought by others but they were greatly outsold by TI as the difference could be a week's pay. When solving particularly difficult homework (5+ complex equations in as many unknowns, etc.), I'd borrow a friend's TI. To my dismay, after pressing the hundreds of keys to get the answer, I did it again and got a different one as somewhere I had erred. And kept doing it again until I got the same answer twice.

That's when I decided to wait for an affordable programmable calculator - the HP-25 in July 1975, two months after graduating as the only IIT EE in the class still using a slide rule. That Post 1461 Versalog mini really pulled its weight...
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Enter vs. = - Didier Lachieze - 09-19-2018, 04:44 AM
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RE: Enter vs. = - Valentin Albillo - 09-19-2018, 05:11 AM
RE: Enter vs. = - Didier Lachieze - 09-19-2018, 05:16 AM
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RE: Enter vs. = - SlideRule - 09-19-2018, 01:15 PM
RE: Enter vs. = - Albert Chan - 09-19-2018, 01:31 PM
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RE: Enter vs. = - Maximilian Hohmann - 09-20-2018, 05:24 PM
RE: Enter vs. = - Valentin Albillo - 09-21-2018, 09:54 PM
RE: Enter vs. = - Gamo - 09-19-2018, 01:41 PM
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RE: Enter vs. = - John Keith - 09-19-2018, 09:06 PM
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RE: Enter vs. = - Maximilian Hohmann - 09-20-2018, 09:56 AM
RE: Enter vs. = - Thomas Klemm - 09-20-2018, 07:17 AM
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