HP - Financial Calculator - Black

I have used this since I can remember from college. This is the only calculator I know how to use and it is one of the best financial calculators!

excellent calculator very hard to find. had been searching for a while

This is the 2nd HP calculator I buy. BestBuy was quick in delivering. The calculator works fine, I'd give this 4.5 stars because the orange ink on the f button and labels looks a little dull, not as warm as seen in photos. But whatever, I didn't buy a fashion piece, it's a calculator and it works fine. I'm rating "ease of use" 4/5 just because it takes some time getting used to RPN and the many functions on this thing

After using an HP 12C financial calculator for over 30 yrs, I bought an HP 10 to save money (half the price of the 12C). Cumbersome to use, I returned it the next day and purchased another 12C. It doesn't get easier to use than the 12C as long is you can get comfortable with the RPC (Reverse Polish Calc) keystroke sequence --> 12x2=24 --> is 12 ENTER, 2 x. The new 12C is a 1000x faster than the 25 yr old 12C I had. Try amortizing 10 yrs into a 25 yr mortgage to calculate interest paid, principle paid, and remaining balance and the answer takes less than a second. On my old 12C it would take 30 seconds! Gotta love the new chips!

I purchased my first HP 12C 30 years ago and became addicted to RPN calculators. Over the years I slowly moved to software based calculators. The other day the most recent SW calculator was not working, and I went to Best Buy to get a calculator. I honestly didn't know they still sold these, but it has been perfect.

As a poor college student, I was just going to use a TI-83 calculator. However, using it took way too much time so I decided to buy this instead. It saves me a lot of time when doing finance homework. The only downside to this is that sometimes the buttons get stuck.

I had a HP-12C from the 1980s. I could enter numbers without looking at the display because it was easy and dependable to work. The buttons are harder to work on the brand new version and sometimes do not register. Now I have to glance at the display and this slows me down considerably! The calculator still calculates beautifully and is much faster with some functions than was my original HP-12C. That's just the state of the art: in 1980 HP made their products in the USA. Today: better components made somewhere else.

Nice springy keys that register perfectly , RPN, the ability to save keystrokes, financial functions at the tip of your fingers in no time. Just perfect.