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I'm happy one can buy a mighty 4-stack RPN calculator today new. Greedily, I wish they had recreated the 32S instead, as it had a single Gold function key and far less busy silk screening. I say this as a former owner of a 32SII.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/32s.jpg

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Personally I'm hoping for an HP48G or HP50G clone. I still use my 50g and it's great.

There's the HP Prime

Prime is a completely different product, because it's aimed at a completely different target group: students, not engineers.

Perhaps, but it doesn't mean that it's not the greatest for engineers, of does it? I've used a little bit of both and I don't see myself using anything but a prime nowadays. The new licensee (after HP completely dropped the calculators business 3 years ago or so) just put out a new os version, and there are hopes that another one soon brings up the CAS to a recent version of giac/xcas, which is completely unmatched in this field/market.

To be frank, I had the HP-48SX, donated it and have gone back to my trust HP-15C (or reissues). For anything more sophisticated, I use a CAS on a computer, like SymPy/Mathics or inside Jupyter.

HP48GX with a sizeable readable font.

I'm the opposite on this, I like more labeled functions directly reachable with function buttons and less menu scrolling :)

SwissMicros should really do the WP-34s imho:

https://commerce.hpcalc.org/images/34s-angle-medium.jpg

32S didn't use menu scrolling though.

This page at least mentions a menu system:

https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp32s.htm

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