On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Ed via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Good hear it stood the test of time! As an HP PC dealer in the 80s > into early 90s we ha a calculator contract with HP also and... > we sold the heck out of them! > > Is it the only one of the 10 series calcs that stayed in production? > > I have a set of the special demo versions that were mounted on a > descriptive plaque > that had been in the PHX HP Corp demo center... when they redid that they > knew I > Hoarded stuff and sent them over. For some of the 10 series that were > still being used > we had them on the display floor the others went into the the suites > next to the business > in the historical display. > > Ed# > > > In a message dated 4/2/2017 8:50:16 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > > On Sun, 2 Apr 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote: > > > That is an undertaking indeed! I had not seen this.... Ed# > > Someone said the 12c was still being made? > > The 12c never went out of production. It has been continuously updated. > A lot of bankers, insurance people, etc still rely on them. > > > -- > David Griffith > d...@661.org > > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > So to necromance this thread, because why not, I got a DM42 beta unit last month and it is AMAZING. Even the pre-release hardware is pretty much up to production snuff, and in my opinion this is the coolest thing SwissMicros has done to date. I just felt like sending out a quick testimonial now that the thing is in-hand. SwissMicros deserves the business; they've come a very long way from the original cute-but-not-super-useful credit card sized HP Voyager clones to something as mature and powerful as the DM42. -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com
