On 18 Aug, Tony Duell wrote:
[HP49G]
> The main complaints I had were
[...]
> I don't like the rubber keyboard,
That was the bigest disapointment for me, when I saw the HP49G the
first time. Everyone knows that this rubber keyboards (at least the ones
on TV set remote controll units) are not durable. That low quality
design on a HP calculator? What comes next? Does HP drop RPN? (Like
Comcrap the Alpha, but that is an other story...)
> So do I. The old HP's are very well made, reliable, and plain fun to use...
My words.
> I've started obtaining HPIL peripherals
[...]
> An HP41 or HP71 controlling a loop of such devices is quite a sight :-)
I can imagin. On a computer geek meeting in switzerland I connected the
video interface of my HP41CV to a video beamer. It was fun to see the
calculator output on the wall...
>> Are you sure of _not_ being a calculator collector? ;-)
> Yes, I didn't make a serious effort to obtain much of this stuff (I've
> never bought on E-bay, etc).
Similar for me. I don't go out hunting on EPay. I don't need that stuff.
But I keep my eyes open and put my hands on everything that comes around
and is afordable.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
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Received on Sun Aug 19 2001 - 05:35:08 BST