"Tom Ring" wrote in message
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In order, I like my HP15C, HP11C, and way behind HP48SX. And then there
is my HP25.

I originally purchased an HP35, then an HP45, then an HP25, then finally
an HP11. Which was so tough it got run over by a NY DOT dump truck and
had merely a crease above the LCD display. And is still in use 25+
years later.

I purchased the HP15C as new when I thought the 11C was lost.
Fortunately it was not. So I ended up with both (eventually).

I purchased a 48SX at a hamfest for $75. It seemed a good deal at the
time, although I had to wait about a year for the heavy tobacco smoke it
had absorbed to dissapate.

I still like my 15C the best. And it is still on it's second set of
cells since 1982, impressive.

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So, what calculators do you like best?

And, of course, why.

tom
K0TAR


I started with my name engraved on a K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig. But that
was over 20 years before I bought an HP35. When the programmable HP65
appeared, I was in heaven. I bought every solutions book and even wrote and
submitted a few myself. Of course the HP67, HP41CX and HP42S saw steady use,
each in its day. When the HP48GX came out, I eagerly snapped one up, and
after about a week of frustration I wrote a terrible letter to HP, decrying
their "start over with a blank sheet of paper" approach. I guess those are
the 4-bangers one of you mentioned above. After retiring from my engineering
position, I found quite a few HP12C at various flea markets, and snapped
them up - - you need a calculator at every desk, coffee table, and work
bench in the house and every car in the garage, don't you? But then, an
amazing machine hit the (flea) market - - the HP17B, and its so welcome
follow-on the HP17BII with Reverse Polish and "solve" functions. Of course
there were HP27S, HP11C and an HP15C found at various times, too, but
currently the HP12C at every elbow, and at my main computer table the HP42S
for complicated things like Log Periodic antenna design, and Solar Array
calcs and my trusty HP17BII for all single expression solutions. It has been
an eventful and enjoyable life.

Chuck W6PKP