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I Have A Bo Burnham GIF For That [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 8:57:37 PM  
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KarmicDisaster [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 9:09:13 PM  
I use a TI-59 emulator on my Android phone almost every day.
 
aimtastic [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 10:15:58 PM  
8675309
 
UberDave [OhFark]
2023-01-29 10:43:41 PM  
HP38g.  Yes...I was one of those guys and I still have it dammit.
 
Lsherm [TotalFark]
2023-01-29 11:07:48 PM  
I had one of these bad boys for engineering school, and it still works:

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That thing was great, because it could solve equations graphically, while most calculators at the time would run numerical routines to find an answer. So an integral might technically be correct, but it would look like .33333333x^3 instead of Fark user image

IIRC, it was the first graphing calculator with that capability. We weren't allowed to use it during tests, but it sure made double-checking homework a lot easier.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-29 11:23:05 PM  
I would pay a fair price for an emulator of an HP 15C. I miss thinking in RPN.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 12:11:27 AM  
Sweet
 
Caelistis
2023-01-30 12:13:45 AM  
What calculating 5318008 might look like:

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Bith Set Me Up
2023-01-30 12:20:05 AM  
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noazark [OhFark]
2023-01-30 12:33:16 AM  
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slantsix
2023-01-30 12:55:48 AM  
I've told this story before but one day my old boss was trying to impress all the other very important business people at the table with his newest Rolex or Tag or whatever.  When he was about done, I rolled up my sleeve and proclaimed "Mine might not be worth $20k, but it was $20 and it spells BOOBIES!"

It's a Casio that my wife bought me.

Everybody laughed their asses off and I humiliated him in front of everybody.

/good times
 
Mad_Radhu
2023-01-30 1:07:05 AM  

I Have A Bo Burnham GIF For That: [Fark user image image 448x252]


Elon?
 
chase_neal
2023-01-30 1:10:39 AM  

fragMasterFlash: I would pay a fair price for an emulator of an HP 15C. I miss thinking in RPN.


There are several HP model emulators in the Google store, including your 15c. My 25 got me through HS and college and I was thrilled to find an emulator of it. I use it all the time and can't remember the last time I lit up my phone's native calculator app.
 
bughunter [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-30 3:00:58 AM  

chase_neal: fragMasterFlash: I would pay a fair price for an emulator of an HP 15C. I miss thinking in RPN.

There are several HP model emulators in the Google store, including your 15c. My 25 got me through HS and college and I was thrilled to find an emulator of it. I use it all the time and can't remember the last time I lit up my phone's native calculator app.


My HP-15C that I bought in 1983 still works.  Thing is the Terminator T-800 of calculators.  It's been dropped from 3rd story balconies onto concrete, had multiple cans of beer, Mt Dew and Diet Coke spilled on it, been sat on, spit on disinfected, disrespected, and at one point lost in storage for 17 years, and it still works on batteries I last changed in 2004.

I can't use an algebraic notation calculator.  I key in a value and halt... "where is 'Enter?'" says my cerebellum.  Even when I focus, I fk up an entry.  (Hell, if it's an option, I'll fire up Excel before I'll use an algebraic calculator.)

There are HP-10/11/15 format emulators available as mobile apps too.  I use one of those pretty frequently, but the one on my desk is 40 years old and still a workhorse.

At one point I regretted not buying the HP-16C programmer's calculator with bitwise shift and XOR functions, etc., but then I realized that the CS option in my EE department was for masochists.  The HP-15C turned out to be perfect for a career in microelectronics and aerospace.  (But the 16C would probably bring a pretty penny on the collector's market.)

/parentheses keys are a kludge
 
MissedThePoint
2023-01-30 3:16:27 AM  
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buravirgil
2023-01-30 6:32:00 AM  
3781637
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Muta
2023-01-30 7:15:06 AM  

Lsherm: I had one of these bad boys for engineering school, and it still works:

[Fark user image 750x467]

That thing was great, because it could solve equations graphically, while most calculators at the time would run numerical routines to find an answer. So an integral might technically be correct, but it would look like .33333333x^3 instead of [Fark user image 110x56]

IIRC, it was the first graphing calculator with that capability. We weren't allowed to use it during tests, but it sure made double-checking homework a lot easier.


I had one of these
 
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It has a BASIC interpreter in ROM.  We were allowed to use calculators in Stats class.  I was able to program it to do most of the problems.  Since programable calculators were a novelty in the early '80's the professor didn't think twice about me using it.
 
Flowery Twats
2023-01-30 8:22:13 AM  
i41CX on my iPhone, and V41 on my PC. I'm an RPN kinda guy.
 
Flowery Twats
2023-01-30 8:23:49 AM  

fragMasterFlash: I would pay a fair price for an emulator of an HP 15C. I miss thinking in RPN.


https://hp15c.com/
 
Flowery Twats
2023-01-30 8:30:09 AM  

bughunter: chase_neal: fragMasterFlash: I would pay a fair price for an emulator of an HP 15C. I miss thinking in RPN.

There are several HP model emulators in the Google store, including your 15c. My 25 got me through HS and college and I was thrilled to find an emulator of it. I use it all the time and can't remember the last time I lit up my phone's native calculator app.

My HP-15C that I bought in 1983 still works.  Thing is the Terminator T-800 of calculators.  It's been dropped from 3rd story balconies onto concrete, had multiple cans of beer, Mt Dew and Diet Coke spilled on it, been sat on, spit on disinfected, disrespected, and at one point lost in storage for 17 years, and it still works on batteries I last changed in 2004.

I can't use an algebraic notation calculator.  I key in a value and halt... "where is 'Enter?'" says my cerebellum.  Even when I focus, I fk up an entry.  (Hell, if it's an option, I'll fire up Excel before I'll use an algebraic calculator.)

There are HP-10/11/15 format emulators available as mobile apps too.  I use one of those pretty frequently, but the one on my desk is 40 years old and still a workhorse.

At one point I regretted not buying the HP-16C programmer's calculator with bitwise shift and XOR functions, etc., but then I realized that the CS option in my EE department was for masochists. The HP-15C turned out to be perfect for a career in microelectronics and aerospace.  (But the 16C would probably bring a pretty penny on the collector's market.)

/parentheses keys are a kludge


Heh. Computer Systems Engineering major at UMASS/Amherst in the 70s. I avoided DiffEq and Electromagnetics (though I did do an EM course after graduation). Doesn't seem to have held me back, as I'm still doing embedded hardware design as I approach 70.

I can do most of the binary operations in my head, though I, too, wish I had bought one of those Programmer's Calculators and am slightly annoyed that those functions aren't somehow included in the HP-41.
 
tom baker's scarf
2023-01-30 9:15:42 AM  
80085
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qlenfg
2023-01-30 9:23:57 AM  

Muta: Lsherm: I had one of these bad boys for engineering school, and it still works:

[Fark user image 750x467]

That thing was great, because it could solve equations graphically, while most calculators at the time would run numerical routines to find an answer. So an integral might technically be correct, but it would look like .33333333x^3 instead of [Fark user image 110x56]

IIRC, it was the first graphing calculator with that capability. We weren't allowed to use it during tests, but it sure made double-checking homework a lot easier.

I had one of these
[oldcomputers.net image 381x291]

It has a BASIC interpreter in ROM.  We were allowed to use calculators in Stats class.  I was able to program it to do most of the problems.  Since programable calculators were a novelty in the early '80's the professor didn't think twice about me using it.


Me too. And you could store notes as remarks, in case you needed a cheat-sheet. 

Still have an H-P BASIC calculator and printer somewhere.

I had a nifty Rat-Shack construction calculator that had buttons to convert from decimal to fractions and inches to millimeters, on the fly. Sadly, it died.
 
Ktonos
2023-01-30 9:51:38 AM  
I guess I am super old school - I use a TI-1200 every once in a while, mostly for the fun of it...

http://www.datamath.org/BASIC/TI-1200/TI-1200.htm
 
EvilVanMan [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 10:10:44 AM  
If you're willing to part with far more money that one would expect necessary, you can get some hp-styled rpn calculators here:  https://www.swissmicros.com/

But I'm serious on the expensive part.
 
New Age Redneck
2023-01-30 11:07:03 AM  
Still use my Sharp EL- 5103S.

Have a spoke length program in it for building bike wheels, I'm sure there are numerous places online with programs as such, but I like the old school way.
 
Erick Von Tutri IV
2023-01-30 11:57:05 AM  

EvilVanMan: If you're willing to part with far more money that one would expect necessary, you can get some hp-styled rpn calculators here:  https://www.swissmicros.com/

But I'm serious on the expensive part.


My beloved HP-42S was ~$100 in 1989. Adjusting for inflation (~$240), Swiss Micros prices aren't that out of line. They're only marginally more expensive than used prices for the genuine article. If my HP-42S ever broke, I'd be getting one of theirs in a flash. Still don't want to live without it.

/Some years ago, I priced used HP-42S's and, at the time, buying a new IPod just to run the Free42 app on it was cheaper than the genuine article
//Still no replacement options for my Curta, which is also in regular use
///and the Curta simulators are slow.
 
chase_neal
2023-01-30 12:01:48 PM  

bughunter: chase_neal: fragMasterFlash: I would pay a fair price for an emulator of an HP 15C. I miss thinking in RPN.

There are several HP model emulators in the Google store, including your 15c. My 25 got me through HS and college and I was thrilled to find an emulator of it. I use it all the time and can't remember the last time I lit up my phone's native calculator app.

My HP-15C that I bought in 1983 still works.  Thing is the Terminator T-800 of calculators.  It's been dropped from 3rd story balconies onto concrete, had multiple cans of beer, Mt Dew and Diet Coke spilled on it, been sat on, spit on disinfected, disrespected, and at one point lost in storage for 17 years, and it still works on batteries I last changed in 2004.

I can't use an algebraic notation calculator.  I key in a value and halt... "where is 'Enter?'" says my cerebellum.  Even when I focus, I fk up an entry.  (Hell, if it's an option, I'll fire up Excel before I'll use an algebraic calculator.)

There are HP-10/11/15 format emulators available as mobile apps too.  I use one of those pretty frequently, but the one on my desk is 40 years old and still a workhorse.

At one point I regretted not buying the HP-16C programmer's calculator with bitwise shift and XOR functions, etc., but then I realized that the CS option in my EE department was for masochists.  The HP-15C turned out to be perfect for a career in microelectronics and aerospace.  (But the 16C would probably bring a pretty penny on the collector's market.)

/parentheses keys are a kludge


Yeah, I still have my original 25, but the battery packs crapped out years ago.  I always planned to build a kludge of some sort, but now I'll never get around to it.
 
thrasherrr
2023-01-30 12:06:27 PM  
Back in th3 day, I had two HP 41Cs. Loved them both.  Both were stolen from me.
 
BlakCat
2023-01-30 2:02:03 PM  
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Used the crap out of this thing in the past, Still got it but not sure if you can still get batteries for it.
 
guinsu
2023-01-30 3:22:33 PM  
All I want is a multi line calculator app for my phone and desk top. On windows there's been the power toys calc for ages, which is perfect for when I don't need a spreadsheet. On the Mac...speed crunch which seems to be getting slower and nothing but 1970s calc apps for the iPhone. Why is everyone so hung up on making garbage single line calculators?
 
stuartp9
2023-01-31 4:38:05 AM  
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MikeBoomshadow [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 8:10:52 AM  

stuartp9: [imgs.xkcd.com image 740x211]


xkcd is the I have a Bo Burnham GIF for that of webcomics.
 
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