![]() ![]() They also worked on a number of projects which were eventually cancelled, most publicly the Xpander. Other notable releases were the 39/40 and the 30S. This was one of HP's last super-smart business moves - find the best people for the job and hire them.Īlthough ACO initially started out small (the 48G+), they went on to redesign several older HP calculator products to reduce production cost (the 12C and 17BII, among others). Jean-Yves Avenard, Gerald Squelart, and Cyrille de Brebisson, all creators of Meta Kernel, were hired directly, and Mika Heiskanen and Bernard Parisse, creators of ALG48 and Erable, respectively, contributed from outside HP. ACO scoured the HP48 user community to find the best programmers of calculator software and hired them. The Australian Calculator Operation (ACO) was formed. In November 1997, HP Australia decided to revive calculator operations. Unfortunately, Singapore did nothing on its own after this. ![]() The HP38G, released in 1995, was the result of a joint venture between HP Corvallis and HP Singapore as an attempt to help "train" the Singapore staff in calculator design. After 1993, HP decided to move calculator operations to Singapore. Development continued in Corvallis through the HP48G/GX, which were released in 1993. For overcrowding reasons, the employees were transferred to the Corvallis, OR, USA, offices in September, 1976. The first HP calculators were designed at the "Advanced Product Division" (APD) in Cupertino, CA, USA. As much as I hope something new will arrive from HP someday, I wouldn't be surprised if this really is the end. As to whether HP will resume calculator development again, nobody knows. Aside from unofficial beta ROMs released by the developers personally, nothing new has come out at all from HP's calculator division since mid-2000. The last official ROM for the HP49G was released in May 2000. Many have wondered about the future of HP calculators. This web page remains online for historical reasons, but HP as a brand of calculators has not died and will not disappear anytime soon. While HP calculators are still being sold after the death of HP's calculator division, they are no longer designed in-house but instead come from an outsourced OEM/ODM. Update: In 2003, HP started selling calculators branded with the HP logo, but with the design and manufacture contracted out to the Taiwanese/Chinese company Kinpo Electronics.
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