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  HP calcs are more used at school, of course

As we can see at results greatest part of users uses HP48/49 at school.
HP48 was made in 1993 and many of users entered at university
in 1994 or 1995 and are using HP48/49 during the period of five years needed to complete the course.
HP48/49 contunue being sold and the greatest part of users remain,s as always, at colleges and high schools
This result was expected as the most probable.

This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, hp48@wsjr.com mail list and at hpclub@egroups.com




  They Prefer The Built in Language

Poll results show that people use more USER RPN than other languages. RPN is easier and don't need of help of other programs or cables nor transfers.
User RPL is more low level language permitting the beginner and the intermediate user make simple programs.
I believe that it is the preferred because it is easier and buit in.
It surprise than more people prefer ML than SYS RPL , maybe because ML is more eficient and more powerfull language than SYS RPL and it has less limits than SYS RPL .


This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, hp48@wsjr.com mail list and at hpclub@egroups.com




  Like HP, doesn't mean dislike others

Poll results show that more than 50% of people think TI calculators are good. Even considering the hipotesis that some TI users could also voted for TI, we can say HP users consider TI good calculators.

Many of HP users are also TI users and programmers. Like HP calcs dont mean dislike other trademarks of calculators.
This result was expected.


This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, hp48@wsjr.com mail list and at hpclub@egroups.com





  Faster processing would make HP calculators better

Today we live in a world where we already have fast Internet and fast computers that become every time faster.
It is natural that HP calculators users would like to have a faster calculator. We can say that IR ports can be replaced by wire connections with faster transfer rate and that languages like C++ or Pascal would be also fine.
Faster processing was the option of the majory, indeed it is what we need.


This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, hp48@wsjr.com mail list and at hpclub@egroups.com





  A Good Future for Calculators

Greatest majory of people that voted think HP will become part of a multiuse device
It seems the natural tendence, that in the future we will have TV, CD-Players and other devices into only one.
Who can deny that in few years calculators will not be part of a multiuse device enclosing Cell phone, TV-set, clock and calculators?
Digital clocks already experience it today. There are radio with clocks and CD players and Cell phones with organizers and clocks.
Become part of a multiuse device seems to be the most probable future of calculators.
Other possibility is that calculators will be needed for a specific use, so they will remain similar as they are today.


This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, hp48@wsjr.com mail list and at hpclub@egroups.com





  Programs are usually downloaded to help solve problems

Greatest majory of people ( 47% ) said download programs to solve problems. Indeed it seems to be natural and a logic decision to use calculators programs to help solve problems to get results faster an easier.
By other hand, 25% of people that have been voted said they download programs to learn programming.
Indeed it is a good way to learn programing and even myself do it.
I believe that these users are the ones intermediate or advanced users, or new users that like programming.
Other people use programs, maybe temporarely, in school tests.
The surprise in this poll was that only 6% of people download programs to upgrade an old version.


This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, and at hpclub@egroups.com





  Transfer Problems are Frequent

Windows is absoluely the most used OS. Ninety per cent of users have Windows as platadorm, only 10% use other plataforms. Considering the percent of users that have Windows we can see that 51% of the total and 56.6 % of Windows users don't have problems with transfers.
This is a bad number, as we can see 33% of the total users and 36.6% of Windows users have problems with transfers.
I am surprised that 9% of the total of users and 90% of non-Windows users have experienced problems with transfers.
It is not a credible data however, because only 6 people that voted are non-windows users.


This poll was anounced at comp.sys.hp48, and at hpclub@egroups.com


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