[Icom] Do I Dare To Ask?

[Chris BONDE]

Jack:
You toll my tunder!!
Awhile back my boss bought a handheld calculator, TI.  Two years later I 
had to buy one for the courses I was taking.  Both same functions etc, 
except he had trouble with the rechargable batteries, charge didnot last 
very long.  Costs, his was CA$600, mine CA$200.  A similar calculator in 
functions (one more +/-) smaller in size, better in battery (solar incuded 
now) is free with a discounted subscription to a magazine.

I have bought a cheap large size for the desk, but watch, the keys donot 
work that well.  Scientific calculators are very inexpensive and some are 
cheap.  But try to find a decent financial calculator for a comparitive 
dollar amount.

We could compare TVs as well!  But, yes, I agree with one person who said, 
If you can buy an electronic device, it is obsolete, the next one will do 
more and cost less.

I say:
  Just wait awhile and the one you want will no longer be available.

If it does what you want, why upgrade? (Maybe many people are adopting this 
principle and that is why the economy is in a downslide.)

Chris opr VE7HCB


At 11:37 PM 2002-08-20 -0700, you wrote:
>Speaking of price changes in consumer electronics in the last 30 years,
>take the hand-held calculator.  In January, 1972 the Craig 4501 had four
>functions plus a constant switch and sold for $239.95 ...and no dealer
>could keep them in stock.  Today you can but a solar-powered, 10 function
>calculator for under $5.00 (as low as $2.95).
>
>Jack, KF6IFF


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