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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: The "high price" of the HP48!
- In-Reply-To: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu's message of 31 Dec 92 18:03:19 CST
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- In article <1992Dec31.180319.8567@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
-
- 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.
-
- Please explain how these 70 hours were saved. Make it just 60 hours,
- since you can get a decent low-end programmable calculator for around
- $40 (HP-10S, I think, but I haven't kept track of these models recently)
- and it is the difference between that kind of calculator and the 48
- that you need to justify.
-
- I have a 42s which has probably saved me a few hours over a
- nonprogrammable, but I don't think a 48 would have saved me 60 minutes
- over the 42s, much less 60 hours. I also suspect that the few hours
- the 42s has saved me was more than offset by the extra hours it took
- me to study how to use and program it, unlike a borrowed $60 Casio
- that I had for a while which was programmable in BASIC and barely even
- needed a manual.
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