Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Announcement: HP 15C Collector's Edition

 Announcement:  HP 15C Collector's Edition



The HP 15C Returns



Hewlett Packard and Moravia is bringing back the HP 15C Calculator with the HP 15C Collector's Edition, which is set to be delivered starting the summer of 2023.  


The HP 15C is a RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programming scientific calculator, first released in in 1982 and has the following features:  


*  Matrices:  Store up to 5 matrices.  Operations include determinant, inverse, norm, and transpose.  

*  Complex Numbers:  The set of complex numbers includes powers, logarithms, and trigonometry.

*  Numerical integration

*  Solve:  Finding the roots of functions

*  Standard Scientific functions:  polar/rectangular conversions, trigonometry, powers, roots, logarithms, linear regression, fraction and integer parts, hyperbolic functions

*  Programming:  Keystroke with labels, comparison tests


The HP 15C Collector's Edition has the following improvements from the original and Limited Edition of the HP 15C:


*  There are now 99 memory registers, up from 67

*  There is now a memory capacity of 672 steps, up from 448

*  The new processor promises a faster speed 

*  The Collector's Edition comes with a printed manual, which can be downloaded from Calculator Store's website here:  https://www.thecalculatorstore.com/epages/eb9376.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/eb9376/Products/%22HP-15c%20%23INT%22


From browsing the PDF file of the manual, the manual looks nice and it's detailed. 


For details, credit, and discussion, click on Klass' original post is on the Museum of HP Calculators (MoHPC) here:  https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-19886.html



Pre-Orders


The HP 15C Collector's Edition is set to be delivered starting at the end of June 2023.   At this moment, Moravia Consulting, a licensee for HP Calculators, has two stores offering pre-sales:


Eduwinkel:  (Netherlands) (Price:  129,95 Euros as of 5/3/2023*)


https://www.eduwinkel.nl/hp-15c-collectors-edition-calculator.html


The Calculator Store:  (Spain) (Price: 129,99 Euros as of 5/3/2023*)


English:  

https://www.thecalculatorstore.com/epages/eb9376.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=Categories


Spanish:  

https://www.thecalculatorstore.com/epages/eb9376.sf/es_ES/?ObjectPath=Categories


* Prices do not include delivery charges but does include value added tax (VAT).  Depending where the customer is from VAT may be subtracted from the price.  


Source:


Kuperus, Klaas.   "NEW: HP 15C Collectors Edition"  MoHPC (Museum of HP Calculators)   May 2, 2023.  https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-19886.html



I have pre-ordered a HP 15C Collector's Edition and can't wait to work with it.  



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