Re: OT retro-styled HP calculator

Walter Spector <w6ws_xthisoutx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> I also have the rare HP-16C "computer scientist".  After 20+ years,
> it is only on its 3rd set of batteries.  (Third set went in a few
> weeks ago.)  So much for LEDs vs LCDs...

I have one, too, that I bought new circa 1984.  It's a wonderful
machine; my one complaint is that it doesn't do IEEE-754 floating point
formats natively (the manual has an example program at the end for
computing the IEE-754 single precision float that corresponds to a given
hexadecimal representation).

These things fetch a high price on eBay nowadays, but they'll have to
pry mine out of my cold, dead fingers.

Chip

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