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I think my HP-35 died. A faithful friend for 33 years. Pulled me out of a lot of miscalculations. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> WAT
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Sorry for your loss. I couldn't get through the day without my HP-12C. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Me 43 BH
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4.5 False Recoveries
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The M - recovered
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Why can't anyone make a red LED calculator any more?
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Dear WAT, I am humbled by your loss.... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> And now you will face a big decision - Reverse Polish or not?? STAY on the dark side, otherwise everyone else will always be borrowing your calculator. {{{WAT}}} NCWalker PS - to the REST of you (who don't understand), it's like losing a damn limb, so cut the guy some slack.
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WAT - Entropy at work?
Loss of information?
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
Can't replace it, but you may find something to "fill the shoes" of your friend.
33? Seems to me I know someone else who was 33 when he died. And he has pulled me out of a lot of miscalculations too.
Sorry for your loss.
God bless.
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All of these condolences are very helpful and obviously heartfelt.
I don't know what I'd do without you guys.
I'll continue to try to revive her. I suspect her "turn me on" switch, which has been fickle for years. Or perhaps I lost the touch?
Or..........she found out about 32SII - the OC at work - and she's Plan B'ing me, gone dark.
I hope this revelation doesn't diminish your respect.
WAT
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WAT,
This time around get two of them.
Make sure you don’t tell one about the other though or it will get ugly.
Treat each one of them like they are the only one and rub their batteries, make plans with them, and even plan on young ones someday.
I recommend keeping them separate by keeping one at work and one for “home use only”.
If you ever need to use one out at dinner you can pick one or the other interchangeably.
Whatever the case, make sure you know and understand their COMPLETE histories before you get involved with one.
Best of calculations,
EMN.
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Ah, Reverse Polish Notation. When someone says can I borrow your calculator. There is nothing like the joy I feel when I get to say "Sorry, you won't be able to make her work" Only I know how to push her buttons <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Me 43 BH
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Is this a nerd convention??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt Exposure 101
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Here ya go WAT!!! Kinda like a mail order bride! link****uhh ohhhhh <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Read further. It says non-functionable <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Back to Plan Aing the original one......... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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Is this a nerd convention??? Well any of us RPN people will be happy to race you with your calculator on nested functions. I know where my money will be.
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my x had an HP35 and an HP45.
I had a TI.
I could use both.
Funny thing was - he is an engineer and I was a liberal arts person. But, if you gave us a sheet of regular math - no calculus, geometry, or trig - and took away our calculators, I could win, hands-down.
Sorry about your loss
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Is this a nerd convention??? Well any of us RPN people will be happy to race you with your calculator on nested functions. I know where my money will be. Can someone please translate this into Texican?? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I bet I could out shoot ya, buddy! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Mel<---------Locked and loaded, baby! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
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WAT - my condolences. I was a kid when teh red number calcs came out. They were a promotional item for Proctor and Gamble. An expensive device at the time (1976 or so), and we had a BOX of them. I was the coolest kid in school. I now frequent another website, possible more than MB. You folks might like it, and I just noticed CALCULATORS on sale.... slickdeals Slick Deals is for us cheapos that always spend more time shopping for a better deal on a $20 part, and I always end up paying more anyway. It is hard to replace such an important part of our lives.... far
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I have found a NEW REASON!!!!
A Treasure!!
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Dern - where DID I put my Pickett slide rule........ Or my old hand-me-down K&E bamboo? Should've never jilted her. Just because she couldn't add up. In hindsight, she had the most beautimous ratios. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> OK, taking recommendations for another RPN. I have a 32SII. Don't need a graphing model. WAT
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oh Wat ..how sad ... but what are these things called slide rules and cals with red numbers????? I must be tooo young I guess <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
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WAT:
Oh no...
Last time I saw it, my dad's 35 was still working fabulously. But it got misplaced when we were moving stuff and emptying his storage unit last April. I'm hoping it's there still. I thought I'd taken that box home with me, but I can't find it anywhere.
I do have his 12C, which looks brand new. Plus some TI thing, but I don't like calculators with equal signs on them. It's just not right.
I have an 11c somewhere, but it was all scratched up because I carried it everywhere I went.
-ol' 2long
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Dear WAT, I am humbled by your loss.... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> And now you will face a big decision - Reverse Polish or not?? NCW: I'm sure none of us want 2 consider the alternative: Direct Polish Notation! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> -ol' 2long
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WAT-
I feel your pain. Alas, my HP 41CV is still plugging along nicely, along with the little complex variable plug in chips. I do love it when folks pick it up off my desk and try to add numbers together. RPN will get 'em every time. During college, it got to a point where I couldn't use a regular calculator because RPN had become my way of mentally adding things.
The HP 41 does not have the old red led, like my original HP did, but it still has that retro feel.
Again, my condolences.
I'm also sorry to see so many nerds here. I though we had better judgement in picking friends (and spouses) to ever end up on an MB type site.
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