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- From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
- Subject: Re: Exam mode in version J (var lock?)
- Message-ID: <mckeeveb.726794788@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <Zei3wB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> <1993Jan8.113716.7110@doug.c <2b51298e.2609.2comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> <1993Jan11.143204.11965@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:26:28 GMT
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- kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
-
- >In article <2b51298e.2609.2comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Joseph K. Horn) writes:
- >>
- >>Not so. Despite the obvious silliness of the idea, it's on its way in a
- >>future machine. -jkh-
-
- >Sheesh. Ok, what the heck. (Now who's going to be the first to go out and
- >buy a HP-48 that does nothing more than the regular models other than
- >having the artificial stupidity mode? Not me!)
-
- I would.
-
- Having gotten used to RPN, what would be the use of buying a second, dumb
- calculator that's probably algebraic?
-
- Amoung other things, it's costly (ok, minimal cost) and awkward.
-
- --
- Rob McKeever VE7ICJ rmckeeve@sfu.ca mckeeveb@sfu.ca 604-291-0457
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