About DM32

[jonmoore]

(05-17-2023 01:29 PM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  The 41C line is the one which never had a proper successor. That would be the 48SX, but this was too bald a departure. Some 41 users embrassed RPL... and some did not, and they did not forgive the lack of I/O in the 42S!

I agree with most of your points, but this, not so much.

HP went to huge lengths to compare the 42S to the 41 line of calculators. Sure, the RPL line from the 48 onward, compared in terms of expandability. Specifically that both featured specialist expansions for likes of surveyors that gave the 41 line and the 48GX in particular a super extended shelve life, and robust second had prices long before the rest of the world realized there was gold in them there HP handheld hills.

But RPL being an extension of FOCAL. Mmmm, I've witnessed in the main grumbles from 41 owners attempts to grapple with RPL.

But this thread is about the 32 family tree, so I reckon we should park 42 discussions or take it elsewhere.