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I agree with you and add that I doubt that ANY calculator was manufactured to last millenias!!!
While the HP41C line works they rule in my book. It's the calculator that I have used the most.
Don't get me wrong, I am very impressed with the features (the manufacturing quality is another issue) of the current graphics calculator from HP and TI (and to a lesser extent from Casio and Sharp). They do run circles around our old beloved machines. They irony is that I find the emulators/simulators for teh various calculators to be a lot of fun. After all, there is no worry about battery contacts, bad LCD, bad keys, and so on. The only concern is that they will run on future versions of Windows.
Namir