Sony USB thumbdrives

[jziegler]

RPN Forever!

If my HP32S ever croaks, I don't know what I'm going to go. I'm not sure anyone makes an RPN calculator any more.

Hp still makes one. I was considering it a while ago. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...37-215351.html

I'm not great with RPN, but see the advantages to it.

As for computers, the first one that I used was a Sinclair ZX81 (about the same as Timex-Sinclair 1000) which my dad built from a kit. We then moved to a commodore 64, with a 160k or so floppy drive. Then to a 286, the first we had with a hard drive. 40Meg I think. Filled that up in a few years. I now have over 500GB of storage space on my basement fileserver.

As for the flash, I bought a small MP3 player about a month ago, a little 2Gb flash unit from Creative labs. At the time, there was a rebate on it, it will be about $55 after I get the money back. And it works like a thumbdrive too.

Jim

[jgscott987]

RPN Forever!

If my HP32S ever croaks, I don't know what I'm going to go. I'm not sure anyone makes an RPN calculator any more.

HP's business calculators (12c, 17b) have RPN. It is an option- you can select either RPN or standard in one of the menus.

[LCHIEN]

RPN Forever!

If my HP32S ever croaks, I don't know what I'm going to go. I'm not sure anyone makes an RPN calculator any more.

If it croaks:
1) eBay
2) have you ever visited the HP calculator site? Quite a work. You'll have to google for it, can't remember offhand. All kinds of references including manuals and stuff.

[LarryG]

Jim and J Scott: I'd searched the HP web site before, but somehow missed the 33s (a recent addition to the line, maybe?). I didn't know about the RPN option on the financial models because I was looking only at scientifics ... although, most of the time, a financial model would suit me just fine. I may pick up one of those for routine use and turn to my 32S only when needed. Thanks very much to both of you for pointing these models out.

I'm so used to RPN (I've had my 32S for nearly 20 years, and had other RPN models before it) that I'm almost incapable of running a normal 10-key.

Loring: This one, you mean? I've had that bookmarked for quite a while ... stumbled across it one day and thought, "Hmmm, I don't need this NOW, but I'm going to bookmark it anyway, just in case I ever do ..."

[TheRic]

RPN Forever! ......

RPN (Reverse Polish Notation for those that don't know) just seems like a contradiction in itself.

I have used one before (not on a regular basis) I understand the advantages, but it just seems wrong for some reason. Have heard from people who have/had one, that no one will steal their calculater, they can't make it to work.

[gsmittle]

My first computer was a Mac Plus in 1986--1 meg RAM and a double-sided 800K 3.5" floppy drive. I also bought an external floppy drive and an ImageWriter II printer. The whole rig cost twice what my car cost at the time.

I bought my first hard drive three years later, AFTER I finished my 100-page Master's thesis. I got a real bargain at the time, 30 megs for the price of 20.

I used that Mac until 1994, then I sold the whole rig with the HD for $100. *sigh*

g.

[Rob R]

you can do better than 20 for a gig.

around christmas i bought 2 different 1 gig flash drives for free after rebate from buy.com

the sandisk 1gb ones often go for around 5 bucks each as mentioned earlier.


rob

[wdreamsmaycome]

it'd be nice if Staples in Canada had these sales too, but no dice (as usual)

[jessrice]

Texas Instruments TI-994a

Okay

How about 1981, Texas instruments T1-994a, with tape cassette, rs232, voice synthesiser, with TI basic.

I was only 9 at the time but i could program that thing to play all sorts of games, do basic math, ect. Had to use a TV as a monitor.

The voice synthesiser was very cool, very smooth and life like at the time.
I still have it, it is actaully in the technology lab display case at one of the local high schools.

Not as way back as some of you go, since I was only 9 at the time. If i remember it was about $700.00 for the base plus several hundred more for the tape cassatte player and voice.

My next phase was after highschool wiht the Atari ST and STe. I spent a lot of money on that thing for hard drives and memory.

That computer went through quite a bit of custom soldered add ons.

It is sitting in the tech lab display window as well!

Jesse

[Jeffrey Schronce]

My first computer was a Mac Plus in 1986--1 meg RAM and a double-sided 800K 3.5" floppy drive. I also bought an external floppy drive and an ImageWriter II printer. The whole rig cost twice what my car cost at the time.

I bought my first hard drive three years later, AFTER I finished my 100-page Master's thesis. I got a real bargain at the time, 30 megs for the price of 20.

I used that Mac until 1994, then I sold the whole rig with the HD for $100. *sigh*

g.

Pretty much my EXACT story! Mac Plus 1MB, 800k 3.5". I had the external 20 MB that sat under the computer.

Amazing how far we have come.