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Darwin:
I love 'em and have a small collection. Anyone else? What are you favourites?

For those that care I have:

HP 50g
HP 35s

Radio Shack EC-4044 (the TI 68 in RS clothing)
Radio Shack EC-3035 (Casio fx-580 in drag)

Casio fx-115w
Casio fx-570w

Sharp EL-W516b
Sharp EL-546WBBK
 
TI-65

TI= Texas Instruments
HP= Hewlett-Packard

mouser:
I had an hp41cv in high school and used to write programs on it like hangman:
Geek gadgets - Calculators...

The HP41 has to go down in history as one of the coolest calculators ever, because of something called "Synthetic Programming":


* http://www.hpmuseum.org/prog/synth41.htm
from this usenet thread:
    I seem to recall that Bill Wickes, the inventor of RPL, was person who
    discovered HP-41 synthetic programming. Others will hopefully supply
    more details here.
There were a number of synthetic programming pioneers besides Bill
Wickes, including (but not limited to) Tom Cadwallader, Keith Jarett and
John McGechie. But Wickes certainly was one of the first (or possibly
*the* first) to get the idea of using the HP-41C's bugs to create whole
new program instructions.
--- End quote ---

Darwin:
Yup. I bought the HP 35s because I wanted an HP 41... but I couldn't afford one! Have the emulator on my PC though  :Thmbsup:

Darwin:
PS Wrote the above while trying to teach...  :o Just wanted to clarify that the HP 41 is HIGHLY desireable, even though it has been out of production for 18 years or so and that they fetch BIG money on eBay. The 35th anniversary HP 35s is a bargain at $60, and a pleasure to use... Though I am currently most enamoured with the EC-4044 (TI-68), for reasons that I can't pin down right now. Not to worry, though, next week it will be something else  ;D

superboyac:
I wrote an article about calculators on my website.  It's going to offend all you HP fanboys, so i apologize in advance.  Sorry!!
http://aram.dcmembers.com/engineering/the-california-pe-exam-part-4/

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