Talk:HP-49 series

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I would like to redact apart the HP49G Plus calc article because I have plenty of information about this calc... even more... I have this calculator. May I create an apart page without considering it vandalism? Please. Thank you. --juan andrés 04:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] What is this all about? You SLEEPLESS CLOWN!!!

!!!!! I've entered the information, that the color sheme of HP49 was named "frozen hamster butt", when that calculator came out. This is an absolut true information, because of this I've stayed with my good old HP48G... and this information has to be in an (so called) Encyclopaedia or it must not have this name... Why has this info to be deleted by some Political-Correctness-Troll????? If you suppress this information, no one will know about that (maybe funny) event in 20 years... you leave only crippled an uncomprehend wisdom... ARE YOU TRYING TO CHANGE THE VIEW INTO HISTORY!!!!! I'm very very upset, because the deletion took place without a comment, why that "Can't Sleep Clown" made it! Is Wikipedia a free or a fascist System???? Have I to write a bot, who took care about my changes????

Good for you. I am happy for your mastery of the exclamation mark. Unfortunately this name was never used much apart from a few individuals. Do a search back in comp.sys.hp48 and you will see that it wasn't at all common. This statement, while possibly true in a very limited sense, detracts from the rest of the article. --Antiocles 04:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trouble

Sorry. But I'm having trouble to make a link to a new page. could you help me, please? Thank you.--juan andrés 04:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)


HP-50 USB port uses XModem and Kermit?! It should be RS-232 port, I guess. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.18.15.18 (talk • contribs) 17:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] 50G!

Why put up a model that has not been released yet? WIKI is not supposed to be a rumor-mill. Get it off of here until it is official. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.164.50.154 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC) ---

Why does it have to be "officially released" before details can be published on Wiki? It's a fact that the item exists and that the photo and details are accurate. IMHO the Wiki yardstick should be "Is it the truth", not "can the public buy one". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 222.154.235.62 (talk • contribs) 22:28, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Actually, our yardstick (an important part of it, anyways) is "Verifiability, not truth". The section on the hp50g could certainly benefit from citing the source(s) for the provided information. In the meantime, {{future product}} should provide some warning about the speculative nature of the content. — Jeff | (talk) | 05:23, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I thought that the {{future product}} was the best solution, although I'm not sure how it can always be "reconciled" with "Verifiability, not truth". One would hope that the best kinds of entries are both verifiable AND the truth.

Well the 50G is now officially available per Hp's website and newsgroups with many users of the 50G. Someone care to update this? -Jtolman 15:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 50G Official Release (& General Tidy Up)

We've had debates in the past about this aspect of the 50G. I'd like to suggest that now that HP have decided to put it on their Brazil web site that we consider it "officially released by HP". Additionally, I've just put a couple of hours into cleaning up the article - attempting to make it more concise and efficient (eg cutting out the fat) - just like a good program eh? :) I think it's still a bit loose in places - perhaps those with a better grasp of the English language might like to continue what I've started. T h e M a v e r i c k 11:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo Request

Now that the HP 50g has been out for a while, is there any possibility that someone who owns one would take a photo of it? There are photos for the other models but not the 50g; it would really help the page if one was put there. (When you're scanning down the page looking for the 50g, you tend to look for a photo since it's there and acts as a sort of header to all the other models' articles.) I'd put one up, but I don't own one (yet). --Kadin2048 03:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No dash in HP calculator model numbers in recent history

HP did away with the dash in calculator model numbers some years back. The correct designations are "HP 49G", "HP 49G+", "HP 50G", etc. The last calculators in this family to have a dash were the "HP-48S" and "HP-48SX". The G and GX dropped the dash. --Brouhaha 19:37, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Future HP 49g+ Firmware

I've removed the sentences "It is unclear whether HP will release any further ROM upgrades for the HP 49G+. However, the HP 50G ROM upgrade can be installed on the HP 49G+ (but not on the HP 49G)." because it's not a case of "the HP 50g ROM working on the 49g+" - it's a ROM designed for both calcs (it detects and displays the correct hardware platform).

T h e M a v e r i c k 13:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HPGCC description

The article does not make it at all clear that HPGCC is a cross compiler and does not run on the calculator itself. Does anybody have any suggestions for rewording the appropriate sections? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.227.107.50 (talk) 23:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC).

It should be noted that GCC on other platforms is licenced under the GPL as well, so unless some clause was changed the mention of "contrary" should be removed. 69.115.52.75 (talk) 04:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC) Restructured that part, assuming that it was correct in having the HPGCC GPL Extentions require GPL licenceing by all complied code. 69.115.52.75 (talk) 04:24, 8 June 2008 (UTC)