Edited sentence: But today calculators are regarded as cheap, disposable gadgets.HP restarted their production of calculators in late 2003.In March 2002, HP announced that the company would no longer produce calculators, which was hard to fathom for some fans of the company's products; the HP-48 range in particular had an extremely loyal customer base.In the early days of the calculator, HP sales reps were famous for starting demonstrations by slamming the calculator on the floor.The new models, however, reportedly didn't have the mechanical quality and sober design of HP's earlier calculators for which HP calculators were once famous (instead featuring the more "youthful" look and feel of contemporary competing designs from TI)