Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!tub!fauern!lan!tumuc!guug!pcsbst!me From: me@karl.pcs.com (Michael Elbel) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: RPN Calculators Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 89 18:12:04 GMT References: <2148@leah.Albany.Edu> <22400001@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> <1989Nov13.151208.3559@gdt.bath.ac.uk> <4120@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@pcsbst.UUCP Organization: PCS Computer Systems, GmbH Lines: 17 In-reply-to: roy@phri.UUCP's message of 14 Nov 89 15:31:47 GMT In article <4120@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: but it still works fine. How many TI/Casio/Sharp/Whatever calculators do you know of that will still be working 10 years later? Odds are, my HP will still be working in another 10 years too, and HP will probably still Aeh, although I can't understand, why anybody would want to use a calculator that is not RPN anyway :-), there is the TI 59 a friend of mine ows. It is one of the five first machines, TI delivered to Germany, and it still works. Even though my friend refuses to switch that thing off (he has it mounted on the printer, so it doesn't use batteries) it looks like it will last another 10 to 15 years. But still, i prefere HP calculators. My HP 41 flew once through half of the classroom (why is a long story :-) ). All that broke was the battery pack, I had to resolder the accumulators. I'm looking forward to give it to one of my grandchildren, when I'm old and tired :-).