04-13-2004, 08:57 PM
There is a HP calculator web site that says the older HP date codes are based on HPs Fiscal year, and not the actual year. It says the fiscal year starts on November 1st..so in other words a HP calc would be 2 months newer than if using January as the start of the year...Is this true? I ask since the HP Museaum seems to claim the year starts in January, while the site I am referring to says it starts the previous November for the HP Fiscal Year.
The URL site that speaks of the November start of the fiscal year for the date codes is
http://www.finseth.com/~fin/hpdata.html