Btw, does anyone have any experience with the HP50g? How does it compare to say the TI 89T? I think learning ARM assembly would be interesting and could even be useful later for playing around with the GBA. The specs seem to show that it has a much faster processor, but the games and things i've seen online for it all seem pretty basic and people even complained of certain games running slowly. I just ordered an 84+ (not an SE pocket, since it was more than twice as expensive) and the Casio Prizm online today It'll be weird having more than two colors to choose from!

@Chickendude: Congrats on your purchases.

I don't know about from a programming standpoint, but many engineers swear by the HP 50G. I have one myself, but it is just collecting dust. I wasn't really able to find much at all about programming them either. I guess there isn't much of a fan base around the for creating games and such.

*Edit* I bought mine before the nSpire and Prizm came out. At the time it was one of the most powerful and high res. models out.

*Edit2*: IIRC, it runs in emulation mode to begin with. The older models used Saturn ASM, and I think you can write in that. However I believe you can break out of the emulation mode as well and write Using the regular (ARM?) ASM as well. I seem to remember there being some form of BASIC, RPN, and C available as well. It has been a while though, so I'm not 100% sure.

The HP50g is a very great machine, but unfortunately HP calculators never had much of an online community.

It sucks because some models supported ARM and I'm sure porting TI-Nspire programs would not be super hard, aside from the much lower screen resolution.

Btw, how much FLASH does an 84+ (not SE) have? I just got mine and it seems to have 1.5 MB, i thought they only had something like 500kb...?

EDIT: And how can i test if i've got the extra RAM pages?

Then why does mine have 1.5 MB? Also, not to seem thick, but where is the serial number? I just see some patent numbers and a place to write your name... Does the "About" screen tell you anything? Thanks

The serial number should be engraved between the wide indents on the back of the calc (below where the name goes)

So it doesn't say Silver Edition at the top of the case or on the about screen, yet still has 1.5mb archive? 0.o
Btw the about screen at 2nd > mem > 1 shows the type of calc it is, the installed OS and some unique stuff used to identify/register it.

Buy a gameboy advance. This will play all of the mentioned games and it is cheaper.

Can it run quadratic solvers and Reuben Quest, though?

Ah that space is empty

EDIT: The about screen DOES say Silver Edition, but the case doesn't. Weird.

Looks like someone put a 84+ calc inside a 84+SE case...