Argh--my old faithful HP16C is failing!

By the way, on the Mac, a very excellent emulation of the Voyager series including the 16C and the 15C with a weird pseudo French name: "nonpareil-16C" Highly recommended, works as beautifully as it looks. I did not find a good emulation on the PC. There is one that had a good demo but costs $20, and I was never able to buy it, their buying site has a bug. Marc From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Reply-To: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>, "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 8:05 PM To: "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: OT: Argh--my old faithful HP16C is failing! On 12/06/2017 07:30 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: You are welcome glad it is going again it is the very best programmers calculator ever made. Mine is just a little newer than yours and still going strong. I bought mine new when taking a 370 assembler course. I bought mine when my TI Programmer died. I did not like that calculator--small LED digits that did a poor job of hex displaying. The thing ate batteries for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For a time, I was involved in systems with long word length (60 (octal)/64 bit (hex)); when we started writing for the ETA 10, that little calculator earned its keep--48-bit *bit* addresses, with indices in bit, byte, halfword (32 bit) and 64-bit words. Calculating addresses by hand was "interesting" and the HP16C made it so much easier. The little thing has stayed on my desk ever since. I can't say that I've used the programmable feature more than a couple of times. I doubt that many bit-banging programmers have, either. It's a shame that HP discontinued it. --Chuck