Why are the HP Prime and HP-35s so unpopular?

[Roberto Volpi]

(02-23-2021 08:16 AM)aurelio Wrote:  [quote='Roberto Volpi' pid='143207' dateline='1613800129']


Maybe you are right and true that times have changed, but it was also a question of brand and image. When my father ordered his first HP calculator forty years ago, choosing that brand instead of a CASIO or TEXAS unlike other colleagues, he was pretty sure without even tested it, that he would buy the top, because so had been for the other HP tools and istruments daily used

You hit the point Aurelio!

In any case, the situation is not so desperate. The HP35S is still a good product, and "the story of the 21+ bugs" is imho a bit overstated, and despite all efforts , I was not able to reproduce some of them, like the checksum. In my calculator, bought in 2020, checksum works perfectly as stated in the operating manual.

Could I be wrong?