HP Calculator Department Closing

Beans writes "Today is a sad day for the engineering calculator world. HP calculator department is closing. www.calc.org has the scoop. Leaving employees just announced it on comp.sys.hp48. You can check google groups for the original posts."

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LCD fun

[bandit450]

Damnit...I guess this means no more calculator pr0n for the geeks in the back of math class.

?Lives Notation Polish Reversed?

[CalTrumpet]

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An Incalculable Loss...

[Cheese Metal Rulez!!]

...for the geek community.

Sorry.

Alas, my 48SX

[archivis]

I shall not to it tell this sad and dire news. It will be happier to believe that it's family still lives and grows. I cannot so crush it's spirit by telling it that that loathsome monster of poorly-designed calculating devices, TI, shall be triumphant.

Alas.

Re:Let me be the first to say...

[Guido del Confuso]

Well, on a similar note, I just wanted to say that I am extremely satisfied with my Windows machine. Note, however, that I have not used, extensively, a Unix system. I've heard great things about them, but you know what: MY WINDOWS MACHINE IS FINE. It gets the job done, and quite well, if you ask me. I've never had a problem with it (aside from the "interface" going all to hell), and I am impressed by the enormous number of functions that come built into the OS.

I really should not say anything bad about Unix, as I am sure Unix machines are great, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Windows line. My friends use them, and I use them. They work wonders for us.

Also, I would like to tell you how extremely satisfied I am with my McDonald's hamburger. Note, however, that I have not eaten, often, steak...

That's not right.

[fm6]

You can't convert English to RPN just by reversing the words. As with math, you have to flatten out the grammar. If we consider our verbs to be operators for our noun phrases, and our nouns to operators for our adjectives, we get:

Reverse Polish Notation Lives

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This sad is.

Hey, that's almost like English! Makes you wonder.

Re:That's not right.

[Lars T.]

German supposed to be like RPN is? This new to me is. And I German am.

Re:HP reminds me of DEC

[Anonymous Coward]

hey, I don;t think there's enough tinfoil on your heard

Fareewll hp48...

[C0vardeAn0nim0]

And thanks for all the calculations.

Hand me my sliderule, junior!

[nycdewd]

My trusty Keuffel & Esser sliderule model # 4041, patented June 5, 1900... You're all posers.

Linux on an HP calculator

[ekrout]

Can you just imagine having to put your command line args in RPN?

MyCalc%> mv file1 file2
error: argument missing
MyCalc%> file1 file2 mv
MyCalc%> cat /etc/passwd | grep fascdot | cut -d: -f7
cut: error: argument "|" is invalid
(I was going to re-write that in RPN, but I can't even figure out how pipelining would work--so forget it)

A Levels

[MisterPo]

Haha, I sent my father on a little mission when he was in Hong Kong.....to buy me a HP48S. Resisting the temptation to cheat and fill up the machine with all manner of eqautions, I went to my A-Level Maths exam.

Inevitable happened, I got stuck on some really tough questions. I cannot believe how much guilt I had to endure as I watched that little marvel integrate some horrendous algebra graphically for me :)

Thanks HP, I would not be who I am today without you. A dirty little cheat who can't do calculus.

Po