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| From | Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: How about an amazing new HP RPN calculator? Well, it's here and HP didn't make it... |
| Date | 2015-04-19 19:10 -0500 |
| Organization | *snerk* |
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On 4/19/2015 18:56, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 4/19/2015 12:50, Michael Black wrote:
>
>> The TI-30, which was my first real calculator circa 1977, was similar.
>> Out of the box you could run it off a 9v battery. But you could get the
>> battery pack, which added the charger and the battery pack.
>
> I read that the "Programmer" and the "30" are the same machine with a
> different chip.
>
>> You're better off there than with some old calculators. There was a
>> period in the nineties when I'd see them at garage sales for a few
>> dollars, and all of them had bad batteries. So one has to figure out a
>> means of fixing in new batteries.
>
> I am amazed that none of the batteries have leaked. I Have decided that
> if I get a charging cord I will do the first re-charge out of the
> machine and in a plastic bag.
>
>> And of course, the TI Programmer wasn't about programming, but it gave
>> you an easy method of converting between decimal, hex, binary and octal.
>> And I thought it did logic operations like AND, OR, XOR, and shift left
>> and shift right.
>
> About programming (in the old days), not programmable.
>
> It has 40 keys that include numbers from 0-F, all the logic functions,
> and it speaks Decimal, Hexadecimal, and Octal. The binary notation for
> each digit is shown under the key for that number. It has a single
> "memory" register.
It actually, in a sense, has two "memories", one that you can store
stuff in, add stuff to and recall as an entry, and a "constant" ("K")
that you can store a number and an operation in for repetitive calculations.
>> I always wanted one, but couldn't justify it at the time. IN the
>> mid-eighties, I got a Casio or Sharp calculator that at least allowed
>> one to convert the various things. Maybe it had logical operations, but
>> it lacked some of them.
>
> The machine I lusted was the TI 59 (I think that is the right number)
> with the Aviation module and the printer "docking station" (I don't
> think the "docking station" meme had been invented yet--and the machine
> I had in mind was said to be the first programmable hand held, I think)
>
>> Now, any ten dollar 375 function calculators has all of that built in.
>
> I think there are wrist watches with all of that and more.
>
>
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