Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >