Hewlett Packard Voyager Series

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Hewlett-Packard Voyager Series

A Voyager in its slipcase
A Voyager in its slipcase

Function Matrix

Picture Calculator Years Description
HP-10C 1982-1984 Budget scientific calculator, issued following the thought that the 11C and 15C prices were out of reach of a significant market segment. HP was wrong about that, and discontinued the model early on.
HP-11C 1981-1989 Baseline general-purpose scientific calculator.
HP-12C 1981-present According to HP, this was the first horizontal-format calculator. Immensely popular, despite more powerful alternatives, and the only original Voyager model still in production. Goldman-Sachs once (and may still) issued these to new analysts.
HP-12C Platinum 2003-2006 Not one of the original Voyager series, it is said that this calculator was re-engineered from a scanned HP-12C manual provided by The HP Museum. Has four times the memory. Made by Kinpo in China. Also includes algebraic entry to attract the timid.
HP-12C Platinum 25th Anniversary Edition 2006-present An update of the Platinum commemorating the world's longest-lived calculator model. Adds parentheses, backspace and an undo feature. The processor is no longer held back.
HP-15C 1982-1989 Super-duper ultra scientific calculator. Supports matrix operations, complex numbers (with a parallel stack for the imaginary component), SOLVE (HP's root finding algorithm) and numeric integration
HP-16C 1982-1989 Binary math calculator with features to simulate the processor you were working with. Discontinued despite a vocal cult following. Alas, cults don't cough up the cash...
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