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To: WayneS
I have the HP calculator on my Android phone. Just a natural to use as any HP calculator. My college graduation gift was an HP25. I wrote my first program on it to replace tables in the Schaum's Genetics book. I carried the HP16C while teaching my embedded systems (6800/8085) course from 1980 to 1983. All hand-coded assembler. Having the 2's comp arithmetic support was helpful for long relative branch back calcs. The HP12C serves as my financial tool. I did finally cough up for a top of the line HP graphing/programmable calculator. Very nice. I keep a lower end one at hand when writing the aeronautical engineering calculations. Sufficient for that kind of work.
51 posted on 02/14/2018 9:08:04 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

It’s nice to know I’m not the onlt RPN geek left in the world.

By the way, I just found these guys last night:

https://www.swissmicros.com/

They make HP “clones” that actually look pretty nice. I may take a chance on buying one.

I have 20+ different HP RPN calculators and a few Soviet made RPNs as well; but the newest one is about 20 years old. I’m not sure I want to subject any of them to the rigors of a daily ride in my briefcase.


52 posted on 02/14/2018 9:13:55 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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