but the simple increase in memory is suggestive. Message #6 Posted by Paul Brogger on, 11:21 a.m.,
For $30, three BAII Plus calculators can be bought for one 12c Platinum. If not, TI will continue to clean their plate in the financial calculator market. Wish HP would wake up that people want access to financial AND scientific functions. PrangeĮven TI in their TI BAII Plus puts all trig functions AND hyperbolics in a $30 calculator. Message #5 Posted by Gene on, 9:29 a.m., Having a precious metal in the product name should be especially appealing to that market segment. Maybe HP's idea is to "keep it simple", and they may well be right in this case. I suspect that the "target market", financial and management types, wouldn't use trig or other "scientific" functions very much, and would do precious little programming on their calculator. Many of us will buy it regardless, but it's a real pity when one considers what it could have been. Wouldn't you buy a Voyager-series, classical RPN calculator with 400 program steps, basical scientific functions, and decent programming ? Yes, but sadly this isn't it. Had HP made some minimal improvements, such as adding scientific functions, subroutines, labels, and some way to use the extra registers, this could have been a dream machine for nearly everyone, business and scientific users alike. In short, a real platinum opportunity missed once again. No new functions at all, in particular no scientific functions like trigonometrics.
No inserting program lines, still abysmal editing facilities.
Although the manual describes its programming capabilities as "powerful", no improvements here at all.Further, you can do storage arithmetic only on registers 0 to 4, no extensions to allow it at least for registers 0 to 9.They can be used just to store cashflows (up to 30 different cf) HP hasn't provided any indirect capability (i) at all, so you can't use registers above those 20 neither manually nor in a program. Although it seems you can have up to 63 or 64 registersįor data storage, there's no way to STO or RCL more than 20, from 0 to 9 and.It seems the only changes made are that there's now up to 400 program steps, instead on up to 99, and an algebraic mode, but.Manual it's kind of disappointing, because: Thanks a lot for the info, but downloading and reading the Message #3 Posted by John Smith on, 5:56 a.m.,
Searching for "12c platinum" at reveals the manual for it! In response to message #1 by Y K Wong (Singapore) I have spoken to the Sales Manager, according to her we should be expecting the “new” HP 32SII soon too :-) 12C 99 steps)! It is available at S$185.00 (approximately US$100) please go to. HP just released the “new” HP 12C Platinum, it is RPN + Algebraic switchable and with 400 memory steps (vs. Message #1 Posted by Y K Wong (Singapore) on, 3:59 a.m. NEW HP 12C Platinum !!! The Museum of HP Calculators