Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas: Wow, you actually have one of those? Howard, I know HP still makes calculators, but the build quality is just not the same. The tactile experience of using one of the classic HP calculators is kind of like holding a... dare I say it?... Leica. Yes, that's my "new" used iPhone 5. I was deep cycling the battery once, hence the 1% charge. Tracfone (a very economical prepaid service I use) recently allowed us to use real smartphones. So I thought I'd find a nice iPhone 5 that needed a new home after its fickle owner deserted it for a 6. The first one I bought got stolen out of my mailbox :-( This one's doing fine so far. --Peter On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > Peter? > > Actually, they do. HP still makes a line of scientific calculators and > AFAIK, they even use RPN. I?ve had the 41CX app on my iPhone for years. I > didn?t know about the 42S app until now. Looks much the same, but with a > 2-line display. I?ll check it out. (Is that your smartphone in the picture? > Battery?s about dead!) > > And your photo did raise my cardiac temperature! I got my first > calculator, an HP55, 40 years ago. Still have it, case, manuals, power > supply, and all. Battery?s long gone and it doesn?t light up when connected > to the PS, so it?s probably dead. I?ve always had a fascination for HP > calculators, and in fact, I just bought their fanciest, an HP Prime color > graphing calculator, even though I could do without one. It cost just over > $100, about one-fifth of what the 55 cost in 1974?one-twentieth, corrected > for inflation. Looking back, I can hardly believe that as an intern at an > Air Force hospital, I could afford the equivalent of $2200 today. > > There are some beautiful, and beautifully functional, toys that I never > could resist. That?s why, now that the second version has acquired most of > the attributes that I said it would take to get me to buy one, I?ll > probably get the new MM. I hasten to add that, while the term can mean > something frivolously enjoyable, some ?toys? serve very serious purposes in > life. Leicas. > > Thanks for posting the picture. Sorry I went off woolgathering. > > ?howard > > > > On May 21, 2015, at 4:44 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at > > gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > This ought to warm the cockles of some of your hearts. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/17911267022/ > > > > They don't make 'em like that anymore, but at least there's an app. > > > > --Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >