Comment Re:RPN FTW (Score 1) 359
I bought my HP48SX in 1990. I wish they still made them, because I've finally worn out some of the buttons. QQ
I tried whatever "spiritual successor" to the HP48 model came out in the early 2000s. It might have been the HP49? That thing sucked donkey balls, and I returned it because my 48SX was still better.
Aside from RPN, the most important feature for a calculator is how the buttons feel. I'm not interested in squishy keys. I want pop. Can anyone tell me how the HP50 series compares to the HP48 in that regard?
I received a free HP48G as an award for having one of the top 10 grades for first year university students in the CS program at our university. I loved it because it was programmable, had a stack so you could mimic stack operations in a computer, was great for solving statistics problems, and I could play pac-man on it... (grin).
I hung on to it for a few years after university, but never found another use for it. I eventually sold it on eBay. The person who bought it was very happy as theirs had died and the HP48 was becoming hard to find, even in the used market.