In 1981 I purchased an HP-12C calculator. In 1993 I dropped and cracked it, sent it to HP for repair, and a few days later received a new one, free of charge.I still have that HP-12C. It has, through the years (and through the magic of reverse Polish notation), projected companies into bankruptcy, into nirvana, and every place in between. It is as fluent with "the Chase cash flow" as it is with "broadcast cash flow" as it is with the lifetime value of a catalog buyer as it is with assessing cold chain adjacencies. It has been my constant business companion. It is, I think, the only piece of technology that has gone virtually unchanged for nearly 30 years and still dazzles.
Last week, thanks to my friend Cap, I discovered the HP-12C app for my iPhone. This one does everything the original did, and doesn't even have that brain-scrambling feature when it's trying to iterate a cash flow.
I miss that brain-scrambing thing, but I still smiled for the rest of the day.
Thank you, HP. You have provided us another piece of really good work.
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