Does anyone know of a reputable HP calculator repair place. I have an old HP32 s II and Another HP35s I would like to get repaired. A young guy studying for the exam needs one and since HP has stopped making them the prices are sky high. I was going to lend him my other one but it’s not working for some reason.
Looks like only 33s and 35s are allowed
Yeah and since HP stopped making them the prices are through the roof. If I can get my other 35s repaired I will give it to him. I will keep my 35s and my old 32s II those $50 calculators are now several hundred dollars. Absolutely ridiculous. But supply and demand wins again lol. No body is making them so they go up. I liked my 32 s II. Better than the 35s. Just smaller and I didn’t write no programs or formulas in it so no big deal for me.
Cheer up. There are some absolutely awesome calculators being made and sold for a song, just not HPs. RPN lost. The one constant in our world is change.
RPN helps offset my dyslexia. That is not a tall tail. Something about performing computations with RPN vs a regular calculator. Long formulas and even simple task. It works for me anyway.
It looks kinda like a hp. Will look into that. I don’t red no 200 calculator though but I reckon everything is going up now days.
So it seems they must have bought the rights or something from hp as they are all based off of a hp model. Nice. I guess my old calculator collection is going up in price. My 20 to 30$ little 32 s II is now 200$. lol. Good grief.
When I entered college in 1982 HP41cv’s were selling for $389. That’s around $1200 in 2024 money. I couldn’t afford one, did college with a TI-30 .
When I finally got money together to buy an HP48gx with an SMI card in 1993 that combo cost near $600. That also would be around $1200 in today money. And I had to drive to Seattle - a hundred miles one way - and the University of Washington bookstore to track one down.
So these things haven’t really gone up in price at all. The money has gone down.
SMI cogo card. I still have mine like you bought it around the same time for sure. When I was in college they told us to buy a TI who knows very basic. Not graphic. Got my 1st real surveying gig on weekends. Was informed that no calculators with = buttons wouldn’t be used while performing duties. I had no idea what the heck the man meant. But I was studying after work about 3rd day on the job. And the old man said put that ridiculous thing away before you hurt yourself. I was working the quadratic equation for some practice. The school was only a block from the office and my home was 45 minutes. He brought out a 41 and taught me the RPN way . The next day at work he had a hp 32sii brand new setting on his desk. Box and all. Sat me down and showed me how to work it. Said for $30 it’s yours . I said I will have it for you tomorrow. That was it. I never looked back. I got so good with that calculator I went through calc 1 in college with it my pocket scale and graph paper . Unfortunately that 32s II is dead. It died around 2004 I. The desert of Africa. Lost my hp 41 with the survey card in it. And my ho 48gx has a big purple splotch on the screen. With all the tech power today. I still woul like to have my 32sII around. I could go down a grade and never miss a beat for computing grades with that thing. While still keeping level run going and such. Of course not much slope staking or grading like that anymore. But it was a good little basic calculator.
I still have my 41cx I purchased in 1984 for a little over $400. The 41 was required for all engineering students (from industrial to mechanical) at OSU with about 1/2 of the first quarter dedicated to programming them. No substitutes were allowed. I'm not sure how much it had to do with it, but at the time they were all designed and possibly manufactured in Corvallis.
I am sure yall have all heard the reason the military went with Hp Calculators.
When I was at the old mapping and geodetic surveying school in 2000 they had told it again to all of us students. Oh some of them were cussing having never ran RPN before. But they all got the hang of that. Those 41 calculators I believe were one of the best and most durable for a crew to have. I mean the stack was awesome. One could easily be running traverse and keep up with the angles distances and on the last closing angle would know the closure precision and had all the info ready and could immediately go strait into the adjustment of apply the lat and departure info to get the adjusted coords. Didn’t even need to write a program. On of my crew chiefs would ride in the suburban long non filtered cigarette and as I kept the field book and ran the total station and set up the bs and fs he would keep up with the info in his 41 cvx . I would reduce everything and check by field book and 9 times out of 10 if we differed on something it was me fat fingering something in my process When we started using a data collector more those days slowly dwindled away.
Every now and then you get lucky. It took me most of the night reading and searching online but this morning. After enough coffee I read one last trick. I have been able to get the 35s working. So one new future prospected FS challenger will be able to give it a go. Now to see if I can repair the old 32s II But that will be fire a different day some times YouTube or some old thread in a blog pays off
