3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
3:21 p.m.
At this point I'd have to say my dearly departed HP 50G. Loved the look of my 2 semi
or entirely dead 49G's. Hated using them though.
At some point I really want a 48cx. At that point I'll probably consider my collection
complete.
4 Mar
4 Mar
3:24 p.m.
At this point I'd have to say my dearly departed HP 50G. Loved the
look of my 2 semi or entirely dead 49G's. Hated using them though.
I bougth the first HP49G I saw. The documentation was non-existant, and
it was ridiculously buggy (to the extent that some advertised features
did nto exist, others werr unusable). After a few firmware upgrades
(and HP made this deliberately difficult if you didn't run a proprietory
OS), it was useable, but never really pleasant. I still use it, simply
because of the vast range of useful fucntions but...
At some point I really want a 48cx. At that point I'll probably
consider my collection complete.
Waht is a 48CX? I know what a 41CX is -- I have a couple. I know what a
48SX is (I boguth the first one I saw...) and a 48GX (I was given one).
All of the mre nice machines.
-tony
4:23 p.m.
48GX. Replaced the 48S my friend lost at college. Still have it, still runs
great. I even use the iPhone emulator for when it's not handy, though the
UI is dodgy.
I still have a soft spot for my old Tandy PC-7, which was my first
programmable calculator. Just having something portable that I could
program was amazing, never-mind it was a rather awful machine.
10:41 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Jason McBrien wrote:
48GX. Replaced the 48S my friend lost at college.
Still have it, still runs
great. I even use the iPhone emulator for when it's not handy, though the
UI is dodgy.
I still have a soft spot for my old Tandy PC-7, which was my first
programmable calculator. Just having something portable that I could
program was amazing, never-mind it was a rather awful machine.
I missed the HP42s the first time round because it cost so much. A few
years ago I obtained a very nice one on ebay. I love it!
Over on the hpmuseum.org forum a new firmware was developed for the HP30b
that turned it into a scientific calculator, the WP34s. Now they're
working on a new calculator from the ground up for HP42s fans.
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11:42 p.m.
In terms of "most useful", I'm still using my HP16C after many years.
Perhaps not as exciting as a kitted-out HP48, but very useful nonetheless.
--Chuck
5 Mar
5 Mar
5:36 p.m.
I missed the HP42s the first time round because it
cost so much. A few
years ago I obtained a very nice one on ebay. I love it!
I am (as ever) in a minority of one amongst HP enthusiasts in that I
don't much like the 42S. It strikes me as a 41 with all the good bits
taken out. Good bits like plug-in modules, HPIL, synthetic programming, a
way to abck up your data, etc.
I asume you know that if you open up the 42S you can desolder the
existing 8K RAM chip, solder a 32K (62256-type) chip in place of it, oep
nthe soldered jumper next to that IC and solder the other jumper near it.
Then you have a machien with 32K RAM. The 17B which uses the same
hardware will accept a 32K RAM in that way but will only use 8K of it.
the 42S will use the lot.
I have not upgraded my 42S though. With no way to abck up the program I
type in, I don't see the point in having 32K
-tony
1:01 a.m.
On 3/4/13 1:23 PM, "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
48GX. Replaced the 48S my friend lost at college. Still
have it, still
runs
great. I even use the iPhone emulator for when it's not handy, though the
UI is dodgy.
I still have a soft spot for my old Tandy PC-7, which was my first
programmable calculator. Just having something portable that I could
program was amazing, never-mind it was a rather awful machine.
When I was doing my Masters in CS, I bought a 48SX because it was the last
model with the "right" colors on the keys. It was invaluable when I took
a course in Quantum Computation and Information - I programmed it to do
outer products. I really want a 16C, just because, but I won't pay stupid
ePay prices because my 48SX actually does all those things (I love being
able to set the word length since I routinely work with
8-12-16-18-24-32-36 bit computers).
Recently, I bought another 48SX for my middle-school-age daughter. She
loves freaking out her fellow students - and the teachers - with her RPN
skills. That's MY little girl! - Ian
5:04 p.m.
48GX. Replaced the 48S my friend lost at college. Still have it, still runs
great. I even use the iPhone emulator for when it's not handy, though the
UI is dodgy.
I don't think I could get on with a 'virtual calcualtor'. I like the
physcial keyboard with moving keys, I can often use that without looking
at it (handy when you are using a machine tool or measuing instrument at
the time).
I still have a soft spot for my old Tandy PC-7, which was my first
programmable calculator. Just having something portable that I could
program was amazing, never-mind it was a rather awful machine.
Is that the BASIC programable thing that looks like a calcualtor? In the
foltign cawe with the alphabetical keys (in alphabetical order) on the
flap of the case?
I have one, but it's partly dead. The alpha kesy don't work. It's not
conenction trouble, it might be a problem with the membrane keyboard, but
I could't get it to work by jumpering the contacts that the membrane tail
conencts to, so it might be an IC fault.
Odd design.
Pity they missed off the expansion connector. I don't like 'serious'
programamble calculators where you can't back up your program.
-tony
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