19 Aug
2001
19 Aug
'01
5:35 a.m.
On 18 Aug, Tony Duell wrote:
[HP49G]
Similar for me. I don't go out hunting on EPay. I
don't need that stuff.
But I keep my eyes open and put my hands on everything that comes around
and is afordable.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
The main complaints I had were
[...]
I don't like the rubber keyboard,
That was
the bigest disapointment for me, when I saw the HP49G the
first time. Everyone knows that this rubber keyboards (at least the ones
on TV set remote controll units) are not durable. That low quality
design on a HP calculator? What comes next? Does HP drop RPN? (Like
Comcrap the Alpha, but that is an other story...)
So do I. The old HP's are very well made,
reliable, and plain fun to use...
My words.
I've started obtaining HPIL peripherals
[...]
An HP41 or HP71 controlling a loop of such devices is
quite a sight :-)
I can imagin. On a computer geek meeting in switzerland I
connected the
video interface of my HP41CV to a video beamer. It was fun to see the
calculator output on the wall...
Are you sure
of _not_ being a calculator collector? ;-)
Yes, I didn't make a serious effort
to obtain much of this stuff (I've
never bought on E-bay, etc).