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- From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp)
- Subject: Re: HP-97 Calculator
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- References: <1992Jul30.053240.20199@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <mcdonald.190@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug11.224431.17076@bert.eecs.uic.edu> <1992Aug11.235933.30360@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <11AUG199221494044@erin.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:14:08 GMT
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- In article <11AUG199221494044@erin.caltech.edu>, shoppa@erin.caltech.edu (TIM SHOPPA) writes:
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- |> both writing and reading. I tried making cards for my HP calculator (an
- |> old desktop unit, whose model number I can't recall right now, that has
- |> a four-line vector CRT display and magnetic core, which means that it
- |> doesn't forget when the power is turned off) and was similarly unsuccesful.
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- Holy moly! I remember that model. It was the first programmable
- calculator I ever encountered. My high school math teacher got me to
- program a simple (2-D) discrete simulation of orbital motion on that
- baby. We're talking 1972, here...
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