4 Mar
2013
4 Mar
'13
10:01 p.m.
On 3/4/13 1:23 PM, "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
48GX. Replaced the 48S my friend lost at college. Still
have it, still
runs
great. I even use the iPhone emulator for when it's not handy, though the
UI is dodgy.
I still have a soft spot for my old Tandy PC-7, which was my first
programmable calculator. Just having something portable that I could
program was amazing, never-mind it was a rather awful machine.
When I was doing my Masters in CS, I bought a 48SX because it was the last
model with the "right" colors on the keys. It was invaluable when I took
a course in Quantum Computation and Information - I programmed it to do
outer products. I really want a 16C, just because, but I won't pay stupid
ePay prices because my 48SX actually does all those things (I love being
able to set the word length since I routinely work with
8-12-16-18-24-32-36 bit computers).
Recently, I bought another 48SX for my middle-school-age daughter. She
loves freaking out her fellow students - and the teachers - with her RPN
skills. That's MY little girl! - Ian