Title: Not one of HP's best efforts
Product review: I have been a big fan of HP calculators for nearly 25 years, and own a dozen or so HPs. The HP-49 is my least favorite of them, mainly because of the disappointing User's Guide. I've always been impressed with the documentation that comes with their calculators, but this one was far below their usual standards. I could hardly believe my eyes when I read, "In line with Hewlett-Packard's environment policy--which, in part, aims to minimise the use of paper products--instructions on how to use the advanced functions of the HP49G are not included in this manual, but are published, instead, on the World Wide Web." That's a pretty lame excuse for not printing a better manual. This may or may not be a great calculator--I really can't tell without some better documentation. I'm hoping some third-party author writes some thorough documentation for it. In the meantime, I would recommend the HP-48 instead of the 49.
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