18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
2:01 p.m.
Yet another reason why my 41CX will never leave my
desk. :-) I
have a big collection of HP calculators, but the 41 has always
I hae rather more desktop HP calculators than handhelds, but I still use
the latter a lot. I've got several 41's and many of the peripherals and
modules.
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.
It is a computer, both in terms of the intenral architecture and the
facilities it provides to the user, IMHO. Or at least I can't think of a
sane defintion of 'computer' that would exclude it.
BTW, the HP41C is 30 years old this year....
Very cool!