HP-17B is an algebraic entry financial and business calculator manufactured by

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, introduced on 4 January 1988 along with the

HP-19B HP-19B, introduced on 4 January 1988, along with the HP-17B, HP-27S and the HP-28S, and replaced by the HP-19BII (F1639A) in January 1990, was a simplified Hewlett Packard business model calculator, like the 17B. It had a clamshell design, like ...

HP-27S The HP-27S was a pocket calculator produced by Hewlett-Packard, introduced in 1988, and discontinued between 1990 and 1993 (sources vary). It was the first HP scientific calculator to use algebraic entry instead of RPN, and though it was label ...

and the

HP-28S The HP-28C and HP-28S were two graphing calculators produced by Hewlett-Packard from 1986 to 1992. The HP-28C was the first handheld calculator capable of solving equations symbolically. They were replaced by the HP 48 series of calculator ...

. It was a simplified business model, like the 19B. There were two versions, the US one working in

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only, and the international one with a choice of six languages (English,

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HP-17B

HP-17B code name was ''Trader'' and it belonged to the Pioneer series of Hewlett-Packard calculators. It had a 131x16 LCD dot matrix, 22x2 characters, menu-driven display, used a Saturn processor and had a memory of 8000

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, of which 6750 bytes were available to the user for variable and equation storage. The HP-17B had a clock with alarm that allowed for basic agenda capabilities, as well an

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for printing to some Hewlett-Packard infrared

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HP 17BII

The 17B was replaced by the HP 17BII (F1638A) (code name ''Trader II'') in January 1990, which added RPN entry.

HP 17bII+

The 17BII was replaced by the HP 17bII+ in 2003. Two significantly different case variants of the 17bII+ exist. The newer 17bII+ (F2234A), introduced in 2007, with Sunplus Technology SPLB31A CPU was developed and is manufactured by

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External links

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