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Started with an HP-45 then a HP-33 then a HP-11 then a HP-32S and have the HP-48GX app on my iPad.
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I never met a gun I didn't like.
SEdge,
I have an AMT Hardballer I can fix you up with.
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If an Arkansas couple get married, then move to California and later get divorced, are they still brother and sister? I am confused. Why would an Arkansas couple move to California? miles
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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I started school with an HP-67 that had the integral card reader with the little plastic strips I stored code on. My brother gave it to me when he graduated. Seems it ran near $700 new back then. This in 1980. I moved on the the 41CV a couple of years later and still "run it" using the Enter, +, -, / and x keys regularly. 
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Perhaps I should apologize for trying to derail the thread, but with a title like inane thread of the day perhaps I should not worry.  John I wouldn't apologize, nor worry. <snip> Anything else is on Excel, Scilab (a sort of free open source Matlab), or a routine written in a scripting language like Python. nighthawk, How do you like Scilab? I don't really use Matlab enough to justify paying their annual "maintenance fee" any more, and I am looking for alternatives (and open source is nice too!). bump.
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bought me one of these back in the early 80's. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.brezovits.at/Bilder/hp15c/15.jpg) Jim, I still have my HP 15C on my desk at work! Don't worry about it "running off" cause no one else knows how to use it!
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i was wondering when someone would whoop out the sliderule. I came late to this and was wondering how many posts it would take until somebody brought up those damned things.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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Once you use an HP for a while, it is hard to use anything else. RPN does have its quirks. miles Yep, took me awhile to succumb to the dark side . . . mainly cause I was too poor in college to afford one. But one I was out and tried one, that was all she wrote - can't hardly use a "normal" one now.
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Now that we got to see all the cool(  ) calculators, you guys ALL haveta post pics of yer pocket nerdpacks!!
Be afraid,be VERY VERY afraid ad triarios redisse My Buddy eh76 speaks authentic Frontier Gibberish! ![[Linked Image]](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/EvilTwinMar/Sabretooth-1.jpg)
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you guys ALL haveta post pics of yer pocket nerdpacks!! Don't have any. Retired, don't even wear a watch. miles
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What is a 48G and manual worth?
I have one I might sell. I might even still have the box.
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Ok...I'll play, also will show my age..
I used Ti SR50, but, for our first calculus and physics tests, we had to use a sliderule.
We had to learn how to use a sliderule before we were allowed to use a scientific calc.
But don't knock the sliderule, it put a man on the moon...
Tony
PS...I know use the TechCalc app. on my RAZR Max for a scientific calc
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College algebra/trig has become little more than a calculator driving course in a lot of universities.
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Yupper....
I actually got pretty good with the sliderule....and always kept it with me in case my sr50 died in the middle of a test.
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Mathman,
If you've ever seen any footage from mission control during the Apollo 13 mission, you'll see the sliderulers flying at warp speed.
When I first started working for IBM in '77, most of the engineers I worked with had just come from Huntsville off of the Apollo pgm.
That is when my engineering training Really Started.....
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If you've ever seen any footage from mission control during the Apollo 13 mission, you'll see the sliderulers flying at warp speed....
Tony That says a lot if you read it right.
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bought me one of these back in the early 80's. Jim, I still have my HP 15C on my desk at work! Don't worry about it "running off" cause no one else knows how to use it! Yeah, wait till someone does steal it-like they did mine!! When you try to replace it with another, you find out they are now collectors items and the price is double or triple what you paid originally. Arrrrgggghhhhh, mine was an 11C an I know the idiot that stole it probably couldn't add 2+ 2 on it and that is my only satisfaction.
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I have no idea how to use this stuff or what you all are talking about,for some reason it is very interesting .
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Mathman,
If you've ever seen any footage from mission control during the Apollo 13 mission, you'll see the sliderulers flying at warp speed.
When I first started working for IBM in '77, most of the engineers I worked with had just come from Huntsville off of the Apollo pgm.
That is when my engineering training Really Started.....
Tony I wish that I would have let my grandpap teach me how to use a slide rule when I was young. I am just beginning to realize how smart that man was!
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