Hello everyone, this is my first post to this group, and I'm honored to join. I look forward to particpation and review of postings. I have a question for...
Hi Geoff, from Roy Goldman in Brisbane, Australia My own knowledge of Olivetti calcs was limited to the names, Divisuma, Multisuma and Tetractys - before the...
One of a collection of oldcalcs algorithms from the days when calculators were simple and algorithms were clever. CASC 006: arccos For: calculator with square...
Bob Patton
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Mar 5, 2003 3:11 am
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Bob Patton talked of the days: "when calculators were simple and algorithms were clever." I'd like a dollar for every time someone (usually an accountant)...
Roy, Thanks for your response. It really is true that a lot of fairly fancy calculations can be done on a simple calculator, especially if it has memory....
Bob Patton
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Mar 7, 2003 1:38 am
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Hi Found a calc/clock at a car boot sale. Appears to be in good condition with its leather pouch though the yellow LCD is not easy to read. My question is does...
Hello Peter, ... Good show! I've been looking for a second MQ-1 here in the United States for a couple of years, with no luck. ... My MQ-1 has a label on the...
Hi Dan You are right, it works! I would never have got there without your help. Thanks a lot, Peter ... Hello Peter, ... Good show! I've been looking for a...
Hi all. Looking through old magazines a couple of interesting early items on electronic desktop calculators have shown up. In March 1962 details appeared of...
Nigel Tout
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Mar 8, 2003 8:53 pm
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) cells should not (or maybe even cannot) be substituted for NiCads. It may have...
Bob Patton
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Mar 10, 2003 1:31 am
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... Not sure whether it's being conservative, but, indeed, you should not use a NiCd charger for NiMH, unfortunately. NiCd chargers can be very...
Hi, I've designed products that use either one, and I can say simply that one is bad for the environment and the other IS DANGEROUS if improperly charged. ...
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Ernie Jorgenson
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Mar 20, 2003 9:49 pm
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PLEASE LOOK UP: http://operationshoebox.com/ We have a son in the Marines and he tells us these shoes boxes of personal items are very very important to the...
Ernie Jorgenson
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Mar 26, 2003 2:27 am
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We have found a dual IBM Type bar Typewriter that I would like to donate to a museum but I don't know anything about it. From the jpeg I have it appears that...
Ernie Jorgenson
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Mar 31, 2003 3:06 am
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Hello collectors, I have forgotten, who asked me photos of the "Portable" arithmometer. You may see ones at http://www.rk86.com/frolov/portable.htm Best...
Sergei Frolov
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Apr 5, 2003 10:33 am
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Hello! I have one question about the "HP 12C Platinum" calculator. What is this model? Is "HP 12C Platinum" is vintage or modern calculator, where I may read...
Sergei Frolov
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Apr 12, 2003 4:16 pm
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Behavior #006 - Operating Systems Old calculators have a greater variety of operating systems than many people realize. John Ball in Algorithms for RPN...
Bob Patton
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Apr 26, 2003 12:48 am
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Interesting, indeed. H-P enthusiasts could shed some light on a recent scheme that, iirc, cleverly combines RPN and algebraic to some degree. (I might...
One of a collection of oldcalcs algorithms from the days when calculators were simple and algorithms were clever. CASC 007: Real sine For: calculator with a...
Bob Patton
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May 5, 2003 11:14 pm
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Inspired by Bob Patton's series of "oldcalcs algorithms from the days when calculators were simple and algorithms were clever", I'm sharing my little trick...
Good one. As salesmen selling electric (as opposed to electronic) calculators, we used to use a shorter version 355/113 - this was easy to remember and gives...
Hi, I have just rescued a physically tidy anita 1011. It powers up, all digits light and you can enter all numbers, but you can not set the decimal point and...
Nothing like posting a message to have an afterthought too important to forget about. Those IC part numbers are extremely likely to indicate that the ICs are...
Thanks Nicholas, I am an electronics engineer, and could adapt modern logic, if I knew what these parts were. I know that later models of the Anita Range used...
I'm re-sending; apparently, a spam filter intercepted my original message, based on the subject line, which was "Anita 1011 calculator --help requested". If...
Again, sorry if this is a duplicate. The Subject line should not have triggered a spam filter, though. {Beginnisg original message} (Yet more...) Try turning...
Gosh, Paul, I do wish you luck. I suspected that the ICs were specials because of their numbering; MA_##, iirc; such a scheme has too few characters to be part...
HI!. I just joined this group, since I'm a fan of good old days of calculator programming. I have been looking for what was, i think, the first programmable ...
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