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71:" in the model designations was to distinguish those models within HP's calculator product line. HP did not print this phrase on subsequent, featured models because the novelty of continuous memory had by then faded and also because it could no longer claim it as a feature unique to HP calculators (Texas Instruments would later call their identical feature " 47:, this feature slowly evolved by model to eventually mean maintaining the contents of nearly all calculator memory, including system and scratch RAM, options, settings, flags, and other calculator state information. 54:
was volatile, i.e. its contents (esp. user data in storage registers and any user programs) were cleared when the calculator was turned off. Three early models with this improved, continuous memory - the HP-25C,
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whereby the calculator could internally sustain most, or in later models - all, of the contents of user memory (via battery-backed
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Index

HP Continuous memory
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
HP calculators
CMOS
HP-25C
random-access memory (RAM)
HP-29C
HP-19C
Constant Memory
HP-34C
Voyager series
HP-10C
HP-11C
HP-12C
HP-15C
HP-16C
Popular Mechanics
ISSN
0032-4558
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) calculators
Graphing
9g
28C
28S
38G
39G
39g+

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