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Hp 50g
TIfanx1999:
@Liazon: well...
Hpcalc.org
Update the first post with more info as well. :)
DJ Omnimaga:
That's prbly the most active HP forums I could find:
http://jacques-laporte.org/forum/
http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/forum.cgi
http://www.expansys.fr/f.aspx?i=139834
http://www.hp-network.com/forum/list.php?f=1
there is also a Usenet group at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/topics
It has nearly 60000 topics, but it's because it has been around for 16.5 years. Half of the Omnimaga regulars weren't even born when it started. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/browse_thread/thread/1d7bb21964ef5871
Most places are now calc help and support though. You may get some luck finding programmers in the Usenet newsgroup but I don't think there are much anymore because games on all sites I could find date back in 200-2001. For HP 49/50 series there are newer ones but they are still 2 or 3 years old.
There are a few of them avaliable in Omnimaga RPG section
As for the Casio community I just looked and it seems to have picked up a bit in the past 2 years, altough still a bit quiet:
http://www.planet-casio.com/Fr/forums/
http://www.planete-casio.com/forum/
http://www.casioexpert.com/forum/index.php
http://www.graph100.com/forum/
http://casiokingdom.org/modules.php?name=Forums
http://www.casiocalc.org/
The activity and the opening of new forums that succeed well could be because of Casioland.net shut down and that the Graph 100 forum (4th one in the list) is no longer really active though
bfr:
Get it if you really think it will be worth the money. HP and Casio make some pretty good calculators, and in terms of hardware, they are generally better than TI's. But do you really need it? Are there some programs for it that you really want to try? Do you plan to program for it? If so, note that you'd be programming for a much smaller user base (and, in turn, there are probably less programs available for it).
I mean, yes, it's cool, it has good hardware and an SD card slot, but think about if you going to actually use it, or just let it sit around and admire it on occasion. Whatever TI calculator you have - I'm guessing a TI-83+ or TI-84+ - can probably do whatever you need to do (and if not, then there's always the TI-89/TI-92+/Voyage 200 series, and now the TI-Nspire CAS too) and you're more familiar with it.
Also, if you still insist on buying a new calculator particularly because of its hardware, I suggest you take a look at other calculators too, such as the Casio ClassPad 330 and those in the Casio fx-9860 series, and also take a good look at the Casio fx-9860 Slim. And then, of course, there is the TI-Nspire (CAS).
TIfanx1999:
I'm looking at it mainly from a programming standpoint. As far as TI's go I have the 83+ BE, 83+ SE, 86, and the 89. Unfortunatley there does not seem to be a whole lot of information available on the HP's, so that makes me wary. I havent checked into casios yet, but I think I will. My internet is acting rather funky tonight though. :( The Nspire (CAS) looks extremley sexy, but as of yet you cant do alot with it so I'm gonna wait on that one to see what develops.
*edit* Looked into casios, they don't hold any intrest for me. For the 9860 series the screen rez is only slightly larger than that of the ti-86, and the processor is sligtly under 15 MHZ. The Class pad doesnt intrest me at all, as the res is much taller than it is wide, and I just don't care for the design. I can't even find specs for the processor speed on the class pad.
DJ Omnimaga:
Also Casio BASIC is apparently MUCH slower than on TIs from what Casio guys told me back in the EPS days, and since most people prefer to use BASIC due to it being easier it draws people away from Casio calcs. I wonder how fast is BASIC on HP calcs (if there is such language on them)?
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