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Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the high-tech-slide-rules dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hewlett-Packard last week announced a contest whereby HP-35 fans create and submit videos of their favorite calculator memories. HP will choose the best videos and you can win a 50-inch, high-def plasma TV. But everyone wins, because HP this summer will debut a special new calculator model. The details aren't announced, however, it's likely to be a 35th anniversary edition of some sort."

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  1. As easy as 1 ENTER 1 + by The+Monster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I loved RPN. It was kind of like running Linux; if someone asked to borrow my calculator, they'd freak out because they couldn't find the equals key, and I'd have to explain how to use the thing.

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    1. Re:As easy as 1 ENTER 1 + by ross.w · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yoda you must think like, if effectively these calculators you wish to use.

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  2. Bah! by GFree · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suppose me and my loyal Ti-89 are not welcome in your HP love fest, huh!

    /me storms out

  3. RPN by ross.w · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never got the RPN hang of

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  4. Re:TI by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Funny

    What engineer would take a high school teacher's calculator recommendation at face value?

    One that was brainwashed by growing up using Ti calculators in school.

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  5. Re:The sad truth is... by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The sad truth is that the world just doesn't have much use for calculators, any more. The world is too busy worrying about who the Next Top Model is.

    Yeah, I remember the Golden Era that was the 70s and 80s. All the cool people would whip out their calculators periodically and do some quick computations. Then we'd relax and watch all that stimulating television like Three's Company and Miami Vice. When we'd really want to get crazy, we'd calculate WHILE we watched Happy Days!

    -sniff- The good ol' days.

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