From: stewart at serissa.com (Larry Stewart)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:48:12 -0400 [thread overview]
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> On Mar 19, 2020, at 5:39 PM, Nemo Nusquam <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/19/20 17:31, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Mike Markowski wrote:
>>>> I've been using my trusty HP-42S for so long that I can hardly remember how to use a "normal" calculator :-)
>>> When my classmate's calculator died during an engineering exam, he asked if he could borrow my spare. I handed him my HP 32s and after a minute he whispered, "Where's the equals key?" He gave my calculator back. :-)
>> I did that to a financial controller in a previous life; she was not amused... Hey, it was the only calculator that I had! I could see her helplessly looking for the "=" key, then I took pity on her.
>
> Hhmm, back in my early days, the 12C was highly coveted by financial types. Our mileage differed.
>
> By the way, HP will sell you an Android app'n that looks just like their venerable (and much missed) calculators.
>
> N.
>>
>> -- Dave
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The HP calculator apps run the original microcode...
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2020-03-17 15:41 ` clemc
2020-03-17 22:48 ` dave
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2020-03-19 21:31 ` dave
2020-03-19 21:30 ` cym224
2020-03-19 21:48 ` stewart [this message]
2020-03-21 2:49 ` dave
2020-03-21 2:55 ` lm
2020-03-21 4:01 ` [COFF] HP calculator emulators (was: The most surprising Unix programs) grog
2020-03-21 7:21 ` [COFF] The most surprising Unix programs tih
2020-03-21 21:10 ` mparson
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2020-03-20 15:40 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " gtaylor
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2020-03-20 19:11 ` clemc
2020-03-20 19:31 ` [COFF] " tih
2020-03-20 19:43 ` gtaylor
2020-03-20 19:47 ` gtaylor
2020-03-20 20:10 ` terry
2020-03-20 20:37 ` clemc
2020-03-20 20:30 ` tih
2020-03-20 20:31 ` clemc
2020-03-20 22:51 ` dave
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2020-03-20 16:07 ` [COFF] [TUHS] " gtaylor
2020-03-20 20:33 ` mike.ab3ap
2020-03-21 3:53 ` dave
2020-03-21 4:11 ` paul
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