Long Live the HP42S - HPCC

DATAFILE V23 N6 Page 13 Long Live the HP42S ! Valent n Albillo (#1075, PPC #4747) If ever there was a praiseworthy HP calculator, the HP42S is allegedly the one. An ill-fated model, initially intended as as replacement for the very successful HP-41 line, it was sadly maimed at a late stage in its development by redefining it to be an HP-15C sucessor instead, thus removing all I/O and expandability (save for IR printing), leaving it with no mass storage capabilities whatsoever and no way to interact with external hardware or use add-in software.

DATAFILE V23 N6 Page 13 Long Live the HP42S ! Valentín Albillo (#1075, PPC #4747) If ever there was a praiseworthy HP calculator, the HP42S is allegedly the one. An ill-fated model, initially intended as as replacement for the very successful HP-41 line, it was sadly maimed at a late stage in its development by redefining it to be an

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