![]() ![]() A new issue of the iconic and classic HP Voyager series 11c, 12c, 15c, 16c, and the HP 71b, this calculator will give years of good, reliable performance to anyone learning or working in Real Estate, Banking, and Accounting. The calculator keypad is laid out in landscape versus the traditional portrait style. The 12c business and financial calculators are capable of so much, it would take me a semester of college to master its features and programming. ![]() The calculator also came with a nice leather case with a built-in business card pocket. Comes with a digital Quick Start and User manual on CD that can be printed out, but the manuals are over 270 pages. ![]() The newer 12c uses 2 CR2032 batteries vs the older, gold 12c which uses 3 LR44 batteries. The calculator appears to be of very good build quality with very good key feedback. To make sure the programming worked, I tested some demo programs from my user’s guide, and they all ran just fine.This is a very good teaching tool for learning Accounting/Finance. The real power of the HP-12C is found when you rotate your iPhone to landscape mode what appears on the screen then is a photographic reproduction of the actual HP-12C calculator, complete with the gold-brown-orange-blue color scheme that made the original so…endearing? Because the app uses the actual calculator’s code, absolutely everything works just like it does on the real calculator.Įvery function, every key, even the ability to create programs-and you haven’t lived until you’ve coded hundred-line-programs for an HP calculator, one key press at a time-it’s all there, and it all works. Wider Is Better: The HP-12C is in its glory when you rotate it to its full-power landscape mode orientation. When used in portrait mode, you can use the number keys, along with all the usual math operators and a couple of other functions such as square roots and memory-perfect for those times when you just need a basic calculator. The iPhone version is actually a bit better than just a clone of the original, though, because HP includes a simplified portrait-mode calculator (the 12C is a landscape-mode device). It not only looks the same, but it actually runs the same code as do the physical calculators. Solve complex problems encountered in the commercial real estate brokerage or appraisal businesses. Identify the concepts of amortization and irregular cash flows and input information into the calculator and solve for these types of problems. The iPhone version of the HP-12C is a near carbon copy of the actual machine. Use several of the specialized non-financial keys offered on the HP-12C. If you’ve not used this method of data entry before, you’ll have a bit of learning to do.) Reverse Polish Notation, or RPN, for data entry. (Keep in mind, too, that these HP calculators use If you’re looking for a general use calculator, The 12C, which costs 70 on HPs website, is HPs best-selling calculator of all time, though the company wont reveal how many units it has sold over the years. Note that the HP-12C (and other HP calculators) appeal to a fairly narrow range of users-financial professionals (12C and 12C Platinum) and programmers and scientists (15C). (I still have the original Owner’s Handbook and Problem-Solving Guide, too-all 246 pages of it!) Suffice it to say, I know this calculator inside and out, though it doesn’t get as much use now as it did in my prior life. Though I’ve long since lost the receipt, my HP-12C is approaching its 25th anniversary, and it still runs just as well today as it did when brand new. What’s most amazing about this is that I’m not talking about a progression of different HP-12Cs I’m talking about one HP-12C that is probably older than a fair percentage of the people reading this article. From tests during undergraduate school up through my career change in 2005 to full-time Macworld employee, my HP-12C was with me every step of the way. Through it all, one particular piece of gear was always at my side, ready and willing to help with the trickiest of financial calculations: my Hewlett-Packard Back in my previous life, I was a finance guy-that’s what my undergraduate degree is in, and that’s how I made my living for many years. ![]()
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