TI Programmer

I am not sure I would call that a 'programmer's calculator'. To me, that implies not only the ability to do (at least) integer arithmetic in a power-of-2 base (bianry, octal, hex) _and_ bitwise operations. Just as a 'scientific calcualtor' has to hav the trig functions,logs and their inverses. But the SR22 does sound interesting. Not many calcualtors do flating point in other than decimal. Actually, I do wonder why no calcualtor 'out of the box' can accept and display numbers in an arbitrary base (at least up to base 36). And perhaps other systems like symmetric ternary (digits -1, 0, 1). It would seem to be quite easy to have this feature, and it would be a lot more use than some of the things on modern calculators. -tony