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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Distribution: usa
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:03:19 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.180319.8567@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <PHR.92Dec25155736@napa.telebit.com> <1992Dec26.052935.17881@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <PHR.92Dec30220240@napa.telebit.com>
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- In article <PHR.92Dec30220240@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.052935.17881@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- > In article <PHR.92Dec25155736@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- > > I agree. I do not understand those who buy the Casios and the TIs because
- > > the 48 is just "too expensive".
- > >
- > >I felt that paying my rent was more important than having a fancy
- > >calculator.
- >
- > Paying tuition for a four year public college is going to run you at least
- > $10,000. Four year tuition at, say, MIT can easily run you $75,000.
- >
- >Are you suggesting that since you're already facing crushing bills
- >from tuition, you might as well drop another $200+ for a flashy
- >calculator?
-
- YES!
-
- But I wouldn't look at it as being a "flashly calculator." I'd look at it
- as being a time saving device, just like a word processor.
-
- > By that logic you might as well buy a house now,
- >given what your rent payments are going to add up to over the
- >next few decades. Clearly you have no experience of the economic
- >realities faced by most college students. Most are more concerned
- >with how they're going to pay for next week's groceries than
- >whether their calculator can outcompute a Vax 780 or only a Vax 750.
-
- Uh huh.
-
- [Paragraph about me and where my money goes deleted because it sounds a
- little too arrogant for your "poor starving college student" set up]
-
- Letsee... a HP-48 is $275. Let's say you're making $4 an hour take home
- pay... that's 70 hours of work for the 48. I think my 48 has saved _me_ 70
- hours of work over the past three years, and I think they can for other
- people as well.
-
- Owning a house right now would be nice, but the kind that I'd want to own
- would probably end up costing me more in property taxes than what I pay for
- housing right now. Owning one also wouldn't save me any time.
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-