Comments on: The HP 12c Financial Calculator from 1981: 30 years later, still on sale https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/09/01/hp-12c-financial-calculator-1981/ Making sense of gadgets and technology Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Gregor https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/09/01/hp-12c-financial-calculator-1981/#comment-376 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:32:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=3067#comment-376 In reply to Ben Patterson.

I agree. What other technology has gone unchanged for 30 years and is still as useful now as it was then.

]]> By: Week in review: Picking a new, cheaper Netflix plan; Flash on the iPad; Sony’s eye-catching new tablets | here's the thing https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/09/01/hp-12c-financial-calculator-1981/#comment-373 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:55:05 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=3067#comment-373 […] The HP 12c Financial Calculator from 1981: 30 years later, still on sale Hewlett-Packard’s best-selling 12c financial calculator first went on sale 30 years ago, and it’s remained in stores ever since. Read more… […]

]]> By: Ben Patterson https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/09/01/hp-12c-financial-calculator-1981/#comment-370 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:30:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=3067#comment-370 In reply to Gregor.

I’m still amazed that HP continues to sell them after all these years. That must be some kind of record.

]]> By: Gregor https://heresthethingblog.com/2011/09/01/hp-12c-financial-calculator-1981/#comment-369 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:06:00 +0000 http://heresthethingblog.com/?p=3067#comment-369 I’ve read the current 12C is made in China and isn’t nearly the quality of the original 12C, versions of which I have been using for 30 years. The RPN method used for calculation by some HP calculators, including the 12C, was a stroke of genius.

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