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(Created page with "The HP 17B and the HP17BII are a series of high end business calculator in the HP Pioneer line. == HP 17B == Introduced along with other Pioneers on January 4th 1988 and retailing at $110 (slightly more expensive than the HP 42s), the HP 17B was considered the most premium of the Pioneer business models. It was quickly discontinued by January 1990. The HP Pioneers line was meant to be a unified platform where many calculators can share the underlying hardware and suppo...") |
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== HP 17B == | == HP 17B == | ||
Introduced along with other Pioneers on January 4th 1988 and retailing at $110 (slightly more expensive than the HP 42s), the HP 17B was considered the most premium of the Pioneer business models. It was quickly discontinued by January 1990. | Introduced along with other Pioneers on January 4th 1988, code named "Trader", and retailing at $110 (slightly more expensive than the HP 42s), the HP 17B was considered the most premium of the Pioneer business models. There are two revisions, one English only and one International version offering one of six languages, software selectable. All revisions were shipped with dark bezel and yellow shifted legends. It was quickly discontinued by January 1990, superseded by the BII version. | ||
The HP Pioneers line was meant to be a unified platform where many calculators can share the underlying hardware and support varied feature sets using advanced RPL language (which was hidden from the user, unlike its clamshell predecessors). As such, the HP 17B shared its hardware with the HP 42s with the exception of an additional ROM chip for international language support, displayed using its two-line dot-matrix LCD, and had the capability to output text only to a thermal printer (HP 82240) and raise alarm via a buzzer. | The HP Pioneers line was meant to be a unified platform where many calculators can share the underlying hardware and support varied feature sets using advanced RPL language (which was hidden from the user, unlike its clamshell predecessors). As such, the HP 17B shared its hardware with the HP 42s with the exception of an additional ROM chip for international language support, displayed using its two-line dot-matrix LCD, and had the capability to output text only to a thermal printer (HP 82240) and raise alarm via a buzzer. | ||
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== HP 17BII == | == HP 17BII == | ||
Perhaps reflecting the somewhat stunned reception of an ALG HP calculator from traditional business buyers, HP 17BII was introduced on the 4th of January 1990 and discontinued in 2003, when NEC was unable to continue Saturn chip manufacturing. RPN was reintroduced as an optional input method. Externally, it was differentiated from HP17B by the small "ENTER" legend in white below the equal key. Two hardware revisions are known, one with brown overlay and yellow shifted legends, one later model with black overlay and white shifted legends (the shift key remained yellow). All BII had gold-coloured bare metal bezels. | |||
== HP 17BII+ == | |||