|
Hewlett Packard HP6SSLR Solar Scientific Calculator | 
| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5 x 2.8 x 0.3
MPN: HP6SSLR
Model: HP6SSLR
UPC: 088698785416
EAN: 0088698785416
ASIN: B00000JBMQ
|
| Features:
| • | Solar powered | | • | Essential scientific and mathematical functions for middle-school use | | • | Essential trig and math functions for scientific applications | | • | Base conversions and arithmetic | | • | Easy-to-use algebraic entry system |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Combining both battery and solar power, the Hewlett-Packard Solar Scientific calculator is ideal for students ranging from middle-school algebra all the way up to college-level trigonometry. Don't let the calculator's slim design fool you; although it's compact and easy to slip in a pocket or desk drawer, the functions are meaty. You can use the fraction and fraction-decimal conversion to work with irrational numbers and utilize sine, cosine, tangent, exponential, natural log, and antilog functions for scientific applications. The calculator also allows you to convert minutes and seconds (sexagesimal figure) to decimal format, as well as perform conversions with hexadecimal, octal, and binary bases. Algebra students can enter data in algebraic notation, just like they would if they were writing on paper. And if the math lessons last until after dark, this solar-powered calculator will automatically switch over to battery-powered operation. The calculator's instruction booklet is comprehensive and easy to read. Our only complaint with the HP6SSLR is its single-line display. While it is large and easy to read in most conditions, for those used to graphic or multiline calculators, it may be disappointing. --Ariel Meadow Stallings Pros:
- Both solar and battery powered
- Slim design
- Large buttons
- Ideal for middle- or high-school students
Cons:
Amazon.com Product Description
The high quality and easy-to-use features of the HP 6S make it the complete scientific calculator, perfect for students. Use the fraction and fraction/decimal conversion for working with irrational numbers. Utilize sine, cosine, tangent, exponential, natural log, and antilog functions for scientific applications. You can perform quick and easy conversions with hexadecimal, decimal, octal, and binary bases, and enter data in algebraic notation, just as you would on paper.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Buy this calculator and throw it away. It is a mercy killing November 29, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Buy this calculator and immediately throw it away. Consider it a mercy killing, and consider yourself noble for taking one more of these things off the market. HP, long considered a paragon of handheld calculator quality, must have used a focus group of mentally impaired sub-human species, possibly not even mammilian in nature, to decide to market this device. Specifically, the keystrokes are unpredictable, the solar calculator needs a battery to store information when the calculator's solar panel isn't in the light, BUT the battery depletes so quickly that either you will a) spend more on batteries than the calculator, or b) you will get frustrated and ignore the depleted battery. One more thing, get your tiniest Phillips screwdriver, a jeweler's loupe and a few Xanax to calm your nerves before trying to change the battery. Pray you don't lose the microscopic screws as you remove the battery panel to change the battery. Also remember that you'll have to change the battery again soon anyway, so keep the screwdriver and the Xanax handy. Isn't this what you really were looking for in a solar powered calculator? Now, reread the first line of my review, and follow my instructions precisely. You'll have a much happier life.
 almost but not quite September 3, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This calculator could be one of the very best scientifics sold by ... but it is not. In fact, it is not best for the price, even.
The best scietific is the Hewlett Packard 32Sii but it costs near to 60$ U.S. which means they are not a `give to the kid to take to school' item. Being the `nerdly grand unki' I get to help all the school-agers with their math homework. I agree with the math teacher, here, that this is an `O.K.' calculator but given the present shipping-cost addition to this calculator I suggest one would be better off buying the algebraic entry Hewett Packard 30S or [even] the Texas Instruments 34 II.
Somehow the `RPN' or postfix entry system is thought of a `hard to learn'. The kids here all use it, there are several Java based RPN calculators on the WWW but this calculator doesn't have RPN. If it did I would buy several. Without RPN I cannot even highly recommend this well built fairly easy to use [but no kid likes the siff rubber keys, calculator.
 HP = QUALITY + FUNCTIONALITY July 24, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My first calculator purchase was the HP35 which thirty years ago was around $400. I have bought HP ever since.This is a sturdy, functional, reliable calculator at a price that doesn't affect the decision making process. Obviously HP is taking on the the mass market manufactures and some compromises are made. The worst feature is the adaption of the popular but "impractical" algebraic notation. Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)is just so much more efficient once you have mastered it. As a secondary math teacher I would recommend the more expensive HP32II which uses RPN and is a gem to use. I have owned mine for 8 years and it is still going strong which justifies its high price. Most other brands would crumble or malfunction over this time span. The cheaper HP 6S Solar is a good starter for a grade 9 student where the problem at that age level is not durability but theft. If the student progresses through the grades and shows any ability for mathematics, at some point the HP32SII is a sensible next move. Hewltt Packard is the Rolls Royce among calculators (in part because of RPN). It ranks first and there really is no second competing choice.
Just don't bother April 22, 2001
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Don't even look at this one, the keyboard is so ... how can I say it? un-human friendly! I did one calculation and threw it in a drawer were it still sits.
annoying July 16, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It works, it has lots of functions, it's inexpensive. But it feels cheap. I bought this on short notice when I misplaced my beloved HP11C. I suppose I shouldn't expect much, but I am disappointed in 1. the shallow rubber keys. Hard to be sure if you've really pressed them. Too close together. Unsatisfying feel. (Harder plastic keys as on HP11C or 12C make operations much quicker.) 2. its solar power, which only works well under direct light. The calculator dims out two feet from my desk lamp. There's a button that's supposed to switch it between solar and battery, but it only seems to work half the time. 3. the flimsy cheap vinyl case/sleeve. It works in standard order of operations, as opposed to reverse polish (e.g. the 11C). I haven't tried comparably-priced calculators so can't recommend an alternative except that if you're going to use a calculator routinely it's worth investing in something that feels more substantial.
|
|
|
Return to Math.com | |
