peraino@gmu90x.gmu.edu (peraino) (11/29/89)
I would NOT recommend an HP28S for your 12 year old. It has many functions
that he/she will not need for quite some time. Other less expensive
calculators are available that will suit his/her needs. Sure, you could
say that he/she will grow into it, but by then, you will have an
obsolete machine; so it just doesn't make economical sense to purchase
something like the 28s now. The time to buy the 28s is when (if) the calculator
can be used to it's fullest. But by then, a better machine will be on
the market anyway.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------ericr@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Eric Ross) (12/02/89)
However, it wouldn't hurt to get your kid an RPN calculator. That way he will not have to make the transition to RPN when he is ready for the 28S(extrapolated 10 years, of course). HP makes reasonably inexpensive calculators that would be a good match for him. The best thing that ever happened to me when I was young was when my algebraic calculator broke and I had to borrow my Dad's company calculator (an HP-21). Obviously, I never went back to the repaired calculator. Eric Ross ericr@hpvcper.vcd.hp.com