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(...) Here's a web page with tons of old HP calculators: (URL) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrwrCw.7H2@lugnet.com... (...) Purim (...) I have been know to make some filled with chocolate chips, others with pecan pie filling and still others with marzipan/almond paste and slivered (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrxC2L.H87@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) using (...) and (...) A sliderule is an instrument used for calculations/operations including multiplication, division, extraction of square roots as (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Maggie Cambron <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:38DAF681.9F9442...ell.net... (...) wanted (...) HP (...) Hi Maggie I don't mind being "old" :-) . I mind the teflon coating my brain seems to have developed in some instances when I am (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had a Casio 3600p during high school and a Casio 5000 during university and was very happy with the latter especially. It was a very efficient engineering student tool, AFAIK. It has built in matrix math capability up to 5x5 (including (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Slide rule... Hmm... How can I explain?.. I saw one when I was in middle school but never used one (There were Casio 3600Ps when I was a high school student, and Casio 5000s during university) It's kind of a computing tool for logarithms and (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, no problem! Any time! (...) Hmm... my easy solution is to read lugnet via the web. That way you can follow the most recent threads if you have enough time... or just follow any group you like individually. You can also easily find threads (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) because (...) it (...) By the Way What is a slide rule??? Ravi (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ya well...I used one to finish grade 13 with...and I'm NOT old :). I did it for the sillyness of not having a decent calculator...got quite good at using it, but it fades fast. (I had a +-/* calculator, and the slide rule, and a book of (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) holoween???? (...) Ravi Ps:Great -another NG to Read PPS DEJA VUE I HAVE SAID THE ABOVE BEFORE (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There is another Shiri (or Sheree) around..:-) She is Sheree Rosenkatz, look at this: (URL) thinking both of them having the same nationality, I thought that they should had the same name also, but just interpreted differently when (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 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. (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hi Sheree, Sounds like you had a great Purim! I feel like sharing a bit of Israeli Purim tradition with you... so I'll tell a bit of my side of Purim. (...) Yep, niece. [...] (...) Don't forgot chocolate and peanut butter! (icky, sticky! ;-) (...) (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrwnvH.GwE@lugnet.com... (...) felt (...) haloween (...) Mon. (...) and (...) costumes. (...) Purim (...) fun (...) Reminds (...) holoween???? (...) It does have that aspect to it with the (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey Ravi, Yep, it's a jewish holiday, similar to halloween. I explained it all here: (URL) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sorry for being Blur(singlish phrase!!!) but what is purim-Jewish holoween???? Ravi (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote in message news:38DAB195.7540B3...own.edu... (...) it (...) hi Sheree is just the name of a movie star my mom liked many ... years ago, Sheree North. (If you think I'm going to tell you how many years I (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, you're originally Israeli so it doesn't count... we all spell phonetically, while them USians tend to complicate everything... :-) (...) I dunno, but when I first realized people mispronounce/misspell my name, (at age four ;) my older (...) (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) for what it's worth, "Shiri" is how I'd spell your name. I never saw a "Sheeree" before - what's the source of that? :) Dan (27 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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