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Originally Posted by elcreative
Actually neither the OP nor I were talking about "dollar store" calculators... the OP says "stat" calculator which probably means HP and mine certainly says HP which stands for Hewlett Packard and means high end, scientific instrument level calculator... top of the line and state of the art when released... and still working... and almost definitely why they're still working  |
Hewlett Packard used to mean high end, scientific instrument level calculator. HP calculator quality declined significantly about 10 years ago and nose dived shortly after that. A couple of years later it came back a bit, but it is nowhere near that of 20 to 40 years ago. I bought the top of the line in 2004 and it ate batteries like popcorn and over 1 in 4 key presses did not register. Web searches revealed that it was a general problem.
It is sad, but on the other hand, the HP-42 emulator on my phone works well enough that I have no need to carry a calculator and grpn over linux works well enough at my desk.