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

[ElectroDuende]

(03-04-2021 12:11 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello!

The problem with the 38G in this kind of "unpopularity ranking" is its extreme rarity. It simply cannot collect enough votes to even show up in any ranking. And also I guess that few people in this forum have actually seen one in real life. At least here in Europe. On eBay and other sales platforms they show up about as frequently, or rather infrequenttly, as the HP-91 or HP-01... Currently there are only 5 listed worldwide and at least one of these is broken.

Regards
Max

It was, indeed available in Spain in 1996, I remember it was sharing place with the rest of the range in the HP retailer when I got the 48G. But apart from that, I never saw one at the engineering school... everybody was using either 48 or 32 (I mean, among the scarce HP users). 42s wasn’t either popular; I had one and sold it to afford the 48... hope nobody is upset with this, but I never found it a “confortable”calculator, as I didn’t either with the 15c and 41c that I have acquired later. For me the 48 is the one I feel most proficient in, and the 32 sII the most useful for daily number crunching.

By the way, I keep a 1995 HP leaflet of “calculators for maths, science and engineering” tucked in the first pages of the HP48 manual. The options listed then were: HP20S, HP32SII, HP38G, HP48G and HP48GX. I’ll try to scan it and upload somewhere.