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While lowest in number, this was the last 10C series calculator to be introduced.Thanks to ever improving technology, this was the first series in which everymodel was programmable and like other early models, the owner was introducedto programming right at the front of the manual.
The only 10C series model with a single (gold) shift key, this model concentratedon the basics. Its feature set was similar to theHP-31E except that it dropped built-in English/metricconversions (but printed most of them on the back) and added:
- H<->H.M.S conversion.
- Engineering display format.
- Basic statistics (mean, linear estimate, correlation coefficient, linear regression.)
- More storage registers (10 at startup, but registers were automatically converted to program space as needed.)
- Programming with the requisite set of keys for conditional tests, SST, BST, INT, FRAC, GTO and MEM.
- And like all 10C series models, it had the advantage of running for months to years instead of hours on a set of batteries. The record so far is 34 years on the original set of batteries!
Programming
As you might imagine, the programming model was quite basic. Gotos went toline numbers and there were no insertion/deletion keys. For easier editingGTO.## went to the line number rather than entering a GTO into the program.Just two conditionals were provided (x=0 and x<=y). Of course, any testcould be synthesized with those. There were no subroutines and no flags.
The HP-10C started out with 10 storage registers (R0-R9 with the statisticsfunctions also using R0-R5.) Only 9 lines of program space were reservedbut as programs grew longer, registers at the top (R9) were automaticallyconverted to program space allowing a maximum of 79 program lines with nostorage registers.
HP Key Notes
The September-December 1982 issue of HP Key Notes introduced the HP-10C inthis way:
'Remember the HP-35A? A revolutionary concept in 1972. An 'electronic slide rule' with one register,10bii Instructions
no programming, and -- oh, yes -- a nice, soft, black leather case. All this for the 'affordable' price of $395, factory list. And, it was as hard to find at dealers as it was to get delivery from HP. Hp 10b Financial Calculator Manual
Yet . . . had the electronic computer industry gone the way of inflation instead of each generation of calculator getting more powerful and cheaper, a calculator like the HP-35 would today cost $740.
But the programmable HP-10C -- with 79 lines of program memory that can be traded off for 10 registers -- is at least 10 times more powerful than the HP-35. Just think: assuming the inflationary process mentioned above had become reality, and if the relationship between power and price were linear, the HP-10C would today cost over $7,400!
Instead of such a horrible fate, the HP-10C lists for a small percent of the HP-35's original price. So it is indeed the least expensive programmable ever produced by HP.'
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Price: $80
Introduction-Discontinuation: 1982-1984
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