Re: OT retro-styled HP calculator

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:28:58 UTC, Walter Spector 
<w6ws_xthisoutx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Kids of today just don't appreciate RPN...
>  

The great advantage of true RPN calculators, as opposed to the 
switchable algebraic/RPN ones, is that most people don't borrow them 
twice. They happily enter the first number, then the operator and then
after a pause ask where the "=" key is.

My first calculator was a RPN Novus. When stolen it was replaced by a 
Commodore which I never got on with. I now have HP34c, HP33e, both 
with dead batteries, a HP32S that died after abuse, a HP32Sii an 
HP48GX bought when I thought HP was getting out of calculators. I also
have a couple of HP71B's bought secondhand - they run a type of BASIC.
The HP32Sii get the most use although it is not as reliable as the 
original HP32S.

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