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product had little future.
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elementary: predecessors: it
could .

perform
trigonometric, logarithmic
and exponential functions at

Not.only did HP-35 sales
exceed 300 000 units in three.
years, the product launched
Hewlett-Packard on the high
road to advanced-calculator

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Today's . top-of-the-line
calculators are a quantum
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Two examples of state-of-
the-art programmable
calculators, both introduced
this year, are the Hewle
Packard: HP-12C and— 'HP-
15C slim-line. models — both
_the..result -of -a -decade-of
calculator evolutin.

The _ HP-12C: solves
usiness and finance '
problems; the HP-15C solves

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math, ; science and
engineering ‘problems.

Both feature a handsome,
compact design, easy-to-
read, liquid-crystal display,
one-year. battery life, built-
in-keyboard ‘and circuitry
self-tests and continuous
memory.

The HP-12C features.a full" scientific anc
set of financial and business
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interest, amortization, net
_present value, internal. rate
of return, bonds and an-
nuities calculators, three:
kinds, of | depreciation
schedules and odddays
interest.

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functions, the HP-ISC in-

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and integrate
(evaluates definite integrals).
“Its new, state-of-the-art
scientific . functions. are
comparable in power to
those found on computers,”
said Charles T. Comiso, HP
‘marketing manager for
calculators.

slim-line programmable
- calculators carry suggested
U.S. retail pri 3f $150 and