17 Jun
2009
17 Jun
'09
2:18 p.m.
On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Yet another reason why my 41CX will never leave my desk. :-) I
have a big collection of HP calculators, but the 41 has always
impressed me more than any other model. I think it was because it
was advertised alongside all the 8-bitters of the early 1980s in the
magazines, as if it were a full-fledged computer...which, by all
definitions I'm aware of, it certainly is.
Annoyingly I
realised I picked up an HP41C manual in a charity shop a
few months back, too. If I'd remembered that I had a manual for
it at
home I'd have picked it up straight away...
The HP41 is one of the best docuemtned calculators _ever_ (the
HP71B and
HP75C are similarly well-documented -- documetiation including not
just
excellent user manuals and applicaiton manuals, but also
schematics, bus
information and ROM sources..). And much of the documetation is
available
on the web.
Darn it, there's even an active user group for HP calculators in
the UK,
and yes, the HP41 is still discussed at meetings.
Lack of documentation is never a reason not to buy an HP41 :-) BTW, the HP41C is 30 years old this year....
Very cool!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL