Not so much finger movement, I've got lazy fingers.
Makes me wonder though, it would be neat (for their marketing purposes and/or as a show of this community's elegance) for us to all use slashdot, slashdot.
My weapon of choice. At my high school everybody was forced to buy a G as a freshman, but I was the only kid who even bothered to learn how to program it. But it was cool because then all my friends really appreciated all the stuff I made it do.
Once I started writing progams for it that didn't fit in the machine, I bought a GX. Those were the good old days, ripping through Riemann sums, turning the television on in the middle of class, playing Christmas carols on the internal speaker (I actually wrote one piece that required 4 HP's to play in harmony), playing Baballe (this phat 3d game where you were a ball on a moving and changing set of planks), looking at a grayscale picture of Pamela Anderson in the middle of sex ed....
No joke, I stayed up until 4 or 5 the night before my Honors Physics exam writing programs that made all the problem sets unbelievably easy. The calculator would ask you questions in plain english then use its own logic to find the answer for you. I finished the whole test in 15 mins and got a perfect score. The teacher didn't have any problems with this because he realized that if I knew the material well enough to write the programs I deserved the grade.
Then I defected to Ti with my purchase of the TI-89. Good calculator (very nice screen), but I never had the time to really play with it, college essays and all. I still miss the HP.
Also try looking here, I think they were mentioned on/. a while back. They claim to have a "Hypercomputer" that is rated at an overall sustained performance of 100 TFLOPS (100 trillion 32-bit floating point operations per second). Also they say that it takes up 4 cubic feet of space, weighs 150 lbs., and plugs into a 110-volt wall outlet. Pretty cool.
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Not so much finger movement, I've got lazy fingers.
Makes me wonder though, it would be neat (for their marketing purposes and/or as a show of this community's elegance) for us to all use slashdot, slashdot.
Goes back to NYT, tries slashdot, slashdot.
Hey, who's got the password for slashdot?
My weapon of choice. At my high school everybody was forced to buy a G as a freshman, but I was the only kid who even bothered to learn how to program it. But it was cool because then all my friends really appreciated all the stuff I made it do.
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Once I started writing progams for it that didn't fit in the machine, I bought a GX. Those were the good old days, ripping through Riemann sums, turning the television on in the middle of class, playing Christmas carols on the internal speaker (I actually wrote one piece that required 4 HP's to play in harmony), playing Baballe (this phat 3d game where you were a ball on a moving and changing set of planks), looking at a grayscale picture of Pamela Anderson in the middle of sex ed....
No joke, I stayed up until 4 or 5 the night before my Honors Physics exam writing programs that made all the problem sets unbelievably easy. The calculator would ask you questions in plain english then use its own logic to find the answer for you. I finished the whole test in 15 mins and got a perfect score. The teacher didn't have any problems with this because he realized that if I knew the material well enough to write the programs I deserved the grade.
Then I defected to Ti with my purchase of the TI-89. Good calculator (very nice screen), but I never had the time to really play with it, college essays and all. I still miss the HP.
I, too, could put to good use any spare palms
I'm pretty sure this is the company you remember.
h tm
http://www.starbridgesystems.com/home/mainpage.
Also try looking here, I think they were mentioned on /. a while back. They claim to have a "Hypercomputer" that is rated at an overall sustained performance of 100 TFLOPS (100 trillion 32-bit floating point operations per second). Also they say that it takes up 4 cubic feet of space, weighs 150 lbs., and plugs into a 110-volt wall outlet. Pretty cool.
h tm
Starbridge Systems
http://www.starbridgesystems.com/home/mainpage.