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OK Ok, I'd love to see it, but I also would like a small pocketable calc (even Pioneer series is too big) which can have 41 or 42S type of programming (alpha labels, text, etc. not keycodes like Voyagers)... The TI calcs are aimed at schools & education market used a few years & then not used again (relies on new students all the time, not repeat business)... I agree with your assessment of HP's aim at middle school kids to get their name into the market, then logically over the next few years as these kids get older HP will supply a line of calcs similar to the TI line and compete with it. All algebraic of course...
Question is will HP attempt to develop a high end computational platform to follow up on the HP-48 series..
It would have to work with and complement a desktop system, where most serious computation occurs in industry. Schools and students benefit from the current TI & new HP marketing, but there should be a platform for the aging HP-48 programming crowd (NOT in the bulky 48 case though...)