Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Tue Dec 6 18:48:44 2005
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I have an HP-67 as well with a selection of the little mag-cards for
holding programs.

It nearly cost me my marriage. I'd left the Navy and was getting at EE
at UC Davis and was sitting at home writing a program to solve some
function or other and, as was the geekiness of the time, trying to get
it down to the bare minimum of instructions (memory was very limited).
So I was working and working in my chair, manual open, debugging and
stepping through the program and finally my wife said "Oh can't you
get that finished? It's time for Louisa's bath!" "Oh," I said, "It
works just fine, I'm trying to  make it as compact as possible." The
nuclear detonation could be heard all over the block and I took Louisa
to her bath, story and bed.

I'm lucky I had a calculator when I returned to my chair! And she
NEVER understood that desire to make programs small and optimum. Of
course it's totally wasted in these days. Ah for the joys of PDP-11
assembler!

adam

On 12/6/05, Jacques Bilinski <jbilin@axionet.com> wrote:
>
> >(I also have an ORIGINAL
> >HP35 that I used all through my time in the Navy. Still works but has
> >to be plugged in, the battery has gone belly up low these many years
> >ago. Still love HP calculators though. Reverse Polish definately seemd
> >to make sense to me.
> >
> >
> >
> I was wondering when this thread would lead to HP calculators which are
> one of my fetishes.  I have a small collection of these and dislike
> using any non-RPN calculator. My PDA has an RPN HP calculator emulator
> which I often use. Judging by the prices some of the rarer HP
> calculators fetch on ebay many aging boomers covet these items.
>
>
>
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