How many of you like HP41C calculators?

From: Ron Hudson <rhudson_at_cnonline.net>
Date: Sun Nov 16 23:25:24 2003

On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Joe wrote:
> I had the only (Nuclear) Weapon Effects ROM outside of
> the military

Pretty cool, it's not classified??

> (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.
>

Has anyone a copy of my :Labrinth: program? I think it needed the PPC
rom
and the first prompt asked for the name of the "Dungeon?" (it used the
name to create some constants.. these were combined with the xyz
location
of the player to actually display doors/walls/arches All the stairs are
at 0,0 IIRC.


>> Is anyone here a sometime member of PPC?
>
> Yeap (#12114 IIRC)

I was a member too - but I have long forgotten my number.

> and it's short lived successor HPPC (IIRC). I was

Wasn't that CHUU? HPPC I think, is alive and well and meeting in the UK.

> still active in the HP user's group up till a couple of years ago.


> They gave everyone there a free HP-49.

Nice..
Received on Sun Nov 16 2003 - 23:25:24 GMT

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