[snopercod]

H-P (used to) make the best calculators in the Galaxy. Ditto oscilloscopes and other electronic equipment. Their medical-electronics were second to none.

I still have my HP-45. Although the batteries have long-ago died, it still works when I plug in the charger. Now my HP-41V recently died, and my wife bought me a $4 non-RPN replacement from China. Sigh...

Their test equipment was first class, with one exception. H-P scopes could never hold a candle to the ones Tektronix made. They never quite got that one right.

[FreedomPoster]

>> my wife bought me a $4 non-RPN replacement from China

Can you actually make a non-RPN calculator "go"? I get about 3 operations in, and screw up, on a non-RPN. Cut my teeth on an early HP-31 (still some of the best ergonomics going, from a size and shape standpoint), then one of the first HP-41's.