HP 49G - Meta Kernel, Erable and ALG48

[@kahuna1247]

I loved the coloured printed arrows around the arrow buttons, made a lot of sense. These were removed in the 50g, but retained the same functionality. I didn't mind the blue colour but ultimately switched to the 50g because of the SD card functionality. Every time I wrote a program, there wasn't enough memory to store in the 49g. I even remember speaking to a support tech from the calculator division in Burwood Melbourne for some programming assistance back in the day. Great video, brought back some distant memories!

[@qubex]

I loved this calculator. I bought it in 1999 and it got me through university. I adored its CAS functionality.

[@virtuserable]

What an awesome trip down memory lane, erable helped me so much back in the day. Thank you for this video and huge props to Bernard Parisse and all the other HP hackers!

[@ferpolly19]

Hello!!! Please never stop uploading content, I love your channel!!!

[@robertoalvarez3533]

I’m an engineer thanks to the 49G. I love it! I still have it but unfortunately has an issue with the on button and drains the batteries.

[@PabloArduz]

The 49g wast the first Graphic calculator I have ever seen at my 9 years old, and I feel in love with calculators since then

[@commtechengineer612]

I love the shift key colors on the 48G, it screams 90's.

[@PabloArduz]

A detail about 49g that I really love and I never seen again on another calculators is the two colors screen I really love the stats icons in color blue, like sand clock, up arrows, etc...

[@dosgos]

Did Epson also make the screens for the 48, 49 and 50 (or just some drivers)? I would like to ping my buddy for Epson to ask the old-timers for more info. That knowledge might be lost to time but we can ask.

[@valuemastery]

When the 49G came out, I was so impressed that I immediately bought four pieces. Three of them are still unopened and serve as reserve, should anything happen to my calculator 😊

[@samconnelly7630]

This is mildly related to the video, but I would recommend joining Cemetech, a graphing calculator community.

[@13231wmw]

I have never seen a HP48G or a 49G. I just remember they as citations on HP50G programmer tutorials. Furthermore, I still got my 50G and still use it daily. I have changed so many flags to fix the annoying original menus that I don't even remember how I got to this current configuration.

[@dosgos]

Side-by-side, we see the 49G 's design drew a lot from the 48. The labels seem tough to read and that screen was tiny. I thought the screen of the 50G was too small lol.

[@deoradh]

The keys were indeed horrible, but the plastic shield on the screen made it worse: refraction effects all over the place to the point a number of us on comp.sys.hp48 experimented with removing it. The programming environment was pretty good: some great hooks into the system for those who could work in SysRPL.

[@milk-it]

I have the 50g. As you said, it's a powerful calculator, but the UI is extremely tedious. Even with constant repetition it's easy to forget routines to input data and calculate. Unless I want to use CAS or graphing, I just use my 41CX. It's just so damn simple, but still powerful and versatile enough.

[@PabloArduz]

For me the 49g's Keyboard is different, not bad, the click feeling is the same, just the rubber smoshiness is the "bad" part The 49g keyboard at the end feels softer but more robust the 49g+ and 50g

[@battlecoder]

The keys are definitely a downgrade, but other than that I think the 49G was a marvelous device. Literally equivalent to a 48GX with Metakernel, ALG48 and plenty of memory for user programs. Putting together such a setup with a 48GX would be really expensive, yet it's all included in the 49G, plus the ability to be upgraded.

[@AntonioCavicchioni]

The keys in the 49 are awful... it's a shame... 49+ much better.