Talk:HP-10C series

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[edit] hard coded delay

HP's market research found the users did not trust results obtained so quickly and so its engineers have introduced some delay in the code.^{[citation needed]}

I put it back because it's a good story (but of course wikipedia isn't here to propagate urban legends), and the template:fact tag is here to take it with a grain of salt, and asks for verification. --Marc Lacoste 09:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

That's fine; I remember reading it somewhere, but haven't been able to find it again. Maybe someone else will have better luck. Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I found this calculator.org page, but it isn't authoritative

[edit] "redesigned from scratch"

The 12cp is very similar to the 12c, and not just in it's layout. I have always seen the platinum version reffered to as a reimplementation, rather than a redesign. Does anybody have a source for the extent of the design changes made to produce the platinum?

[edit] Lot o' Crap

"People have been known to take an HP-12C into a mortgage-broker's office and tell the broker the monthly payments on a proposed loan, well before the banker could compute the number, because most bankers had to look up a number in a thick book of mortgage tables, while this calculator could compute it directly."

This is pure Urban Legend.

Also, the HP-12C is NOT known as the Papal calculator. Just making it up as you go along are we? 209.29.88.44 (talk) 13:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, I confess to using mine in the car dealership with the leasing officer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.203.19.203 (talk) 20:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)