What do I think is the best designed electronic equipment in the last 30 years?
My vote goes to the humble HP-12C.
If you've never used it, you simply have never worked in finance.
It does everything right. Calculations, bond math, NPV, amortization, literally everything a financial dude needs quickly.
Hell, it shuts itself off in a strange bow to environmentalism long before it was needed; and fear not, financial wizards, it saves the state to solid-state so you can power it up, and pick up where you left off. General knowledge has it that even heavy users have only replaced the battery once in 10+ years.
Please also note the highly economical "triple-encoding" of functionality via the f and g buttons!
HP has tried to kill the product repeatedly. The hue and cry was so great, it was deafening. I bet at least a couple of Wall St. CEO's said, "You'll never be able to access capital in this town again."
Eat your heart out, Excel!
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