At 09:18 PM 11/16/03 -0600, you wrote:
>A lot of the talk here is about really BIG machines (fill a rack, or
>two or three)
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>but how many of us like pocket sized machines? HP 41C?
I prefer the 41CX but I'll take any of the 41s! ILOVE that calculator.
I've had EVERY peripheral that HP offered for them and a LOT of the
aftermarket ones. I also collected the all the ROMs for them including the
custom made ones. I had the only (Nuclear) Weapon Effects ROM outside of
the military (see <
http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/we/> and a pair of the
Military Engineering ROMs. Other than those, the coolest ROM that I had
was the Astro ROM. It's a special surveying ROM that lets you take
extremely accurate readings and/or over extremely long distances. I sold it
to a group that is re-surveying the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Believe
it or not there are no accurate surveys of the place and they've even
managed to lose a few tombs due to the poor maps of the area.
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>I just found a wonderful emulator for the 41C!
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>http://library.hp41.org/LibView.cfm?Command=Download&ItemID=23212
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>Is anyone here a sometime member of PPC?
Yeap (#12114 IIRC) and it's short lived successor HPPC (IIRC). I was
still active in the HP user's group up till a couple of years ago. They
still had a big international meetings once a year. In fact, I was given my
HP-49 at the meeting in Portland a few years ago. I got the 2nd one outside
of HP (Richard Nelson got the first one). HP sponsored the meeting and used
it to announce the HP-49. They gave everyone there a free HP-49. These were
THE first HP-49s in the US. They (HP) had flown them in just the night
before for this occasion. The last meeting that I heard of was in Chicago
just a couple of days after 9/11. I haven't heard if that had any meetings
after that.
Joe
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>ron. (who's got one of his favorite toys back again)
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Received on Sun Nov 16 2003 - 22:25:22 GMT