Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My HP41 still works as does the scanning pen and card reader. I used it intensely in college for circuit design. Wrote lots of code for that puppy. HP had a unique point of view that I only somewhat shared but did grok. I loved HP back then - a real engineering culture. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > My HP41 CV still works. It was the first computer to analyse the > Williams wind tunnel data whilst we waited 4 months for the Analog > Devices computer to arrive. No computer was from stock in those > days... > I still have the programme I wrote on the little mag cards, and the > thermal printer. I bet -they- don't work though. > Frank > > On 28 Jan, 2010, at 18:24, Adam Bridge wrote: > >> An emulator (virtual machine) is not allowed under the iPhone OS >> unless >> it's completely locked in to a single application. Hence HP can >> market the >> HP15 calculator which has a virtual machine that runs that >> calculator's >> micro-code but can't be programmed beyond what the calculator >> provided. >> >> There was an outfit that ported the Commodore 64 to the iPhone but >> which (oh >> silly me, they said) gave access to the Basic interpreter and not >> just a >> single game. It was kicked out. I don't think it's been allowed back >> although I haven't searched the store. >> >> Same for Java - no virtual machine. >> >> But now that there is more real estate maybe HP will port over the >> HP 41 or >> other of it's great scientific calculators. The form factor would be >> perfect! >> >> Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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