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Subject: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M" now HP calculator OT
From: clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni)
Date: Wed Dec 7 07:04:28 2005
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Count me in...I use an HP41CV on my desk here at home...it takes real 
thought for me to use a non-RPN calculator...I had a battery leak in my 
41CV about 10 years ago - HP was able to repair it.  The repair cost 
more than a new non-RPN calculator of the same capabilities...

ZC
CN

On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:19 AM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> I am an HP fan too. At my first place of work the department has a 
> HP45 which could be booked out and chained to the desk. It cost about 
> 6 months salary for a UK engineer then. I eventually bought a HP35 for 
> myself - a serious financial sacrifice then considerably more than a 
> top of the line personal computer today.
> My best HP story was my use of my HP41CV to download and analyse wind 
> tunnel data. I used it at the end of 1980 whilst waiting for the 
> process control computer I had ordered for the job to be delivered (in 
> those days computers were not available off the shelf).
> I wrote a programme, which I still have recorded on the magnetic strip 
> cards for the HP41CV card reader (if it hasn't faded to noise), hooked 
> the calculator up to an HP-IB voltmeter which I connected via a 
> connection box to the transducers. Not very impressive by today's 
> standards but better than anybody else had at the time. We came first 
> and second in the first two races of 1981 :-)
> Frank
>
> On 7 Dec, 2005, at 01:29, Jacques Bilinski 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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Replies: Reply from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M" now HP calculator OT)
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