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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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  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

  2. /. effect by selectspec · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's too bad they are running their website on one of the scientfic calculators too:

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  3. wow, no kiss first? by spyderbyte23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Did the page get /.ed really, really quickly? This article was posted at 5:35 EST; at 5:40 EST I am attempting to load the page, and getting
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    and so forth.
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  4. Sucks that they're leaving. by Jonny+290 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Guess Taco won't be able to lust after a Beowulf cluster of 48's any more. :(

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  5. Re:No Way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, it is going to suck now that it will stop working now that HP have stopped making calculators. If HP had made crapper calculators, then you would have upgraded and kept them in business, but no, you hung onto your 20 year old calculator to spite HP, to force them to close down their calculator division. And now you calculator will not work because it only works when HP have a calculator division. Like you care anyway because if were to keep on working, it would become a family heirloom, and your greatgreatgreatgrandchildren will use it even though they have processors embedded in their brains to help them do this stuff in zero time.

  6. dorks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i hope all the employees (dorks) are destroyed that worked on these faggot calculators

  7. fucking censors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did you know that you now get banned after getting modded down once? Fuckin' ridiculous... and slashdot keeps records of your IP permanently for this purpose. They don't just ban one IP either... they ban by subnet. I hope there are other people on my subnet that get prevented from posting too when I get banned. fucking censors.

  8. 42 by ZaneMcAuley · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    42

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  9. Re:?Lives Notation Polish Reversed? by darkcompanion · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yoda
    HP calculator
    used
    probably.

  10. Re:Blame Educational Institutions. by metatruk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does your "calculater" have a spell checker?

  11. Re:Blame Educational Institutions. by crlf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wow.. I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition!