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Article #208Re: RPN Calculators
From: Tom Bertelson
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 15:17
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1989 15:17
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frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes: >In article <2148@leah.Albany.Edu> bv3456@leah.albany.edu > (Victor @ The Concrete Museum) writes: >>Are there any companies, other than HP, that currently make RPN calculators? >>Where could I find information about them? I dimly recall one, but that was >>many years ago... >- and lastly, the Cambridge Programmable, with 36 steps of programmability > and a hump on the back of the old Cambridge style case to hold the > larger battery it needed to power its NatSemi single-chip micro (1978). >I'm not aware of any other purely RPN machines after this, but I'd be >interested in finding out if there were (or are) any. I have a National Semiconductor RPN calculator that I still occasionally use. It's the only calculator I know that will float (with the battery removed). 5 cubed would equal, after about two second's thought, 124.9999999. I think it was called the "Scientific". Does anyone else remember this thing? -- Tom Bertelson DISCLAIMER: My opinions are my own and Tom.Bertelson@Dayton.NCR.COM in no way reflect those of my employer. ...!uunet!ncrlnk!cipc1!tbertels
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!aplcen!uunet!ncrlnk!cipc1!tbertels From: tbertels@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom Bertelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: RPN Calculators Message-ID: <1505@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM> Date: 14 Nov 89 15:17:04 GMT References: <2148@leah.Albany.Edu> <2039@zen.co.uk> Followup-To: comp.sys.misc Organization: NCR World Telecomputing Center - Dayton, OH Lines: 24