Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not really a collector but I have a VERY early HP35 with hard case, an HP41C and an HP67. All still work. I still have the card reader and the program cards for a variety of EE functions plus some I wrote myself to solve plasma physics solutions I needed to support the applied science lab. They live with my Pickett vector-hyperbolic slide rule and the inherited KE bamboo slide rule. I wish I had picked up one of the big circular ones with the magnifiers like my physics teacher at Meno had. RPN just instantly made sense to me. I'm terrible at doing arithmetic in my head so calculators are life-savers. But I was trained in the days of slide rules so estimating the approximate answer was perhaps the most important lesson I learned - getting a feel for the answer. I'm a pretty feeble engineer. My neighbor is the real thing - for him the math talks to him with a reality it never had for me. But we learned at the same time, slide rules through our undergrad years, and both of us instantly fell in love with HP calculators and never looked back. Adam On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Javier Perez <summarex@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > I was wondering if anyone here collects calculators. I've been getting > into it more and > more over the years and it could be as fascinbating as cameras! There are > website devoted to the > romance of the calculators and the sagas of the calculator designers! > Here's what I have so far. It's very modest and there are no super jems > but boy am I having fun! > > http://calculators.ultragone.net > > And remember I fix and collect cameras. I rarely take pictures! > But I did sdiscover that using old LPs under the item being > photographed makes for an more intersting pic! > > Javier > _________________________________________________________________ > Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we > give. > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >