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Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:54:30 GMT
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Maggie Cambron wrote:

sheree rosenkrantz wrote:


  :-)  Let it suffice to say that I grew
up using a sliderule not a calculator.)

If it makes you feel any better, so did I.  I remember my friends all wanted
cars for high school graduation, but I just had to have one of the first HP
calculators.  (Yikes! I guess I really must have been a geek.)  : )

Here's a web page with tons of old HP calculators:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/

I used one of the early desktop models at my dad's work. I also used the
original Wang calculator at his work. Fun stuff.

I've got an HP 25C at home which I picked several years ago at a HAM
fest which had never been used (still had the registration card). The
batteries were dead, but I just dissasembled the battery pack and put a
pair of AA NiCads in. It's starting to get flaky, but I still use it
occaisionally.

I also occaisionally used a slide rule in high school, but mostly just
for fun.

--
Frank Filz

-----------------------------
Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
Gee - in the last year or so I threw out my HP 9830A because something fell on the keyboard and broke a few key caps off beyond repair... brought tears to my eyes to find it broken from an avalance in storage... I had the plotter and the wide (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) Wow, interesting site! As it turns out my calculator wasn't one of the earliest after all but a second generation (now I don't feel so old!). But what really surprises me is that the one I use now (HP 15C) has been discontinued for over ten (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)  

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  Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun
 
(...) If it makes you feel any better, so did I. I remember my friends all wanted cars for high school graduation, but I just had to have one of the first HP calculators. (Yikes! I guess I really must have been a geek.) : ) Maggie C. (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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