iPhone gets nostalgic with HP calculator apps

Depending on your age the terms HP 12C and 15C will either bring back fond memories or be met with a quick visit to Wikipedia to find out what I’m talking about.

They are in fact calculators from the relatively distant past with some very nice retro styling. If you happen to own one it probably hasn’t been used in quite a while either because you have no use for a separate calculator in this digital age or you don’t want to risk damaging it.

Whatever the reason HP are now offering us an alternative way to use its HP 12C and 15C calculators again and without fear of ever damaging them. You can now buy them as an iPhone App.

If you want to replace the default iPhone calculator with one of these HP classics it won’t be cheap. The 12C will cost you $15 and the 15C $30. Hopefully those prices will be reduced in the not too distant future, but compared to when they were originally released that price is a steal - the 12C, for example, used to sell for $150 in 1981.