13 Feb
2003
13 Feb
'03
8:50 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Right, and there is of course only one company that made fancy
calculators :-)
The 'simpler' machine is the HP9810. The successor to the HP9100, a
3-level stack RPB machine.
The 'complicated' machine also claims to be a calculator on the
nameplate. An HP9830. It runs BASIC, has a full QWERTY keyboard, 12K RAM,
etc. I'd call it a computer :-)
-tony
Oh, the more complicated machine has the same CPU
(so can be justified as
1, 4 or 16 bits) but all memory, ROM and RAM, is 16 bits wide, both
physically and logically.
Anyone care to guess what the 2 machines are?
I have not the foggest idea, but fancy calculator
comes to mind because of the BCD math bit.