Feel that? That's the unexpected stir of nostalgia welling inside your dorktic-loin. Rest easy, you're not alone. In fact, that picture aroused a deeply seeded HP fanboi-ism long obscured by thick slabs of drab computing plastic and opaque printer ink. The 35s marks the 35th anniversary of the industry defining HP-35 pocket scientific calculator (and death of the sliderule) -- a first to offer basic trig and exponential functions. While HP preserved the original's reverse Polish notation, gone is the single-line of red LEDs which illuminated the childhood wonder of so many budding engineers. The new 35s also introduces an algebraic entry mode for those who find RPN entry just a bit too, well, reversed. Of course, it's fully modern with 800 storage registers, 100 built-in functions, and a large 2-line alpha numeric display with adjustable contrast. Better yet, the 35s will only set you back $60 compared to the $395 it cost back in 1972 -- that's a lot more 8-tracks for your swank
Ford Mercury Capri, eh Pops?
Read -- HP-35 anniversary video
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posted July 13th 2007 5:54AM
I was a HP Golden Calculator Award Winner July 12,2007
For Best Technical Film
Included with My Golden Calculator Statue I am Very pleased to announce that I recieved one of the hundred limited edition 35s. I am very excited with it.
http://www.HpGoldenCalculatorAwards.com
My first calculator was an HP 45, way back in 1974. It got me through last two years of my electrical engineering degree.
Later, I bought and used a range of HP RPN calculators: HP 67, HP 41C, HP 15C, HP 41CV, HP 41CX, HP 48 GX, HP 42s, HP 32sII, HP 49g+, HP 50g
The only ones I have been disappointed with have been the HP 49g+ and HP 50g. They are very powerful calculators, but the build quality ain't HP!
I have just put in an order for the new HP 35s. It looks HP are returning to their 'quality' roots. I hope so. Perhaps future HP calculators will bhave the same build quality as the earlier ones. BTW, my favourite HP calculator of them all is the HP 41C.
C'mon HP, give us calculators with today's power but yesterday's quality!
From a loyal HP fan.
I did not own a 35 but the 35II in 1978; it was a great calculator, I used to program it on the fly (one of the few calcs that I dominated) and it served me well during my BSEET studies. The battery died and the keyboard had some problems but I still think of it fondly. Sorry but yes, I do wax nostalgic over a calculator and will be picking up a new 35 to replace my 32Sii (which I am selling at a handsome profit). RPN Rules!
I just got an HP33s - I currently also use a casio fx-9750g+ for various things. the HP33s's fraction feature is really cool.
It converts decimals to fractions and back, even strange ones like .123456789 it converts to 10/81 but if the conversion is not exact there is a little symbol that shows like a down-arrow or up-arrow to show you there is an extra amount up or down from that.
this alone is really handy for measurements. does some unit conversions between enlish-metric(SI).
it's a scientific calc, and does everything you would expect a scientific calc to do, and more than most scientific calcs do that aren't graphing.
Not that I would need it in calc, it has a random number generator. also handles permutations, combinations, complex numbers, base-n arithmetic, time calculations, and a few other interesting things I can't identify offhand. but don't let the solve button fool you (programming required!).
casio & ti has programming down. I'm a programmer and I won't touch the 33s' programming because it's a nightmare. HP really missed it on that feature. 50g is programmatically somewhat comparable to the TI Voyage 200 and both would be easy like BASIC to program.
I am curious how the 50g stacks up against the TI voyage 200 overall (that thing is a brick - does it have rubber feet so it doesn't slide off the desk?).
I just replaced my trusted HP32s with the new HP35. HP should recall the HP33s (POP Piece of POO) and forget they ever dicontinued the 32s. I hope the 35 will be half as good as the 32. I used my 32s to calculate test results during coal sample testing at coal fired power plants. It saw the worst of environments and still works perfect.
AH, HP!My 1st was an HP-25C, with which I took a post-grad course in predictive statistical analysis. It was a pain to reprogram manually, but served well. Later moved on to 41C, 41CX with all the options - slod over ten of them with Oil field well log analysis software packages - wish I had them now!
35S looks good - I just wish it had an input port (are you listening HP?) all that hand-input nonsense is just that - nonsense; and a supreme waste of time when we could be USING the calculators! Just a *little* USB-sized port to allow inputting programs from one calculator-to-another would be a start. Please? Pleeeease!
And I have the 35, 45, 47, 67, 97, 71, 38, 48, 49, etc - but still like the display of the 41-series best.
I just got my 35s today. The machine looks great! I don't program calculators (use a computer) but I will use the 35s for everyday calculations. I also use an HP 32sII RPN that I had purchased new in 1993. I also owned an HP 15C, which I lost at my office in the Pentagon many years ago. The 15C was the best engineering calculator in the 1980's and was built like a tank.
Cheers!
David
HP calculators are the bomb. I have had an HP 33, and HP 67 (now in an LED calculator museum). But the finest calculator ever owned was my HP 41c. This is the machine that got me into and through medical school. I still have the calculator and know exactly where it is.
I was helping my teenage son with his math and realized I could not use a standard calculator and pulled out the 41c. I was able to do calculations five times as fast on that machine as on the TI my son was using. I am getting him an HP 35 for christmas, and I am going to pound RPN into his head, it will serve him well in the future.
For a treat, if you have an Apple Mac with Tiger or Leopard, you should check out the RPN setting on the calculator program. Awesome!