Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!alonzo
From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo Gariepy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Handheld for school use..?
Message-ID: <9113@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 15:57:12 GMT
References: <3154@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
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In article <3154@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> dl1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford) writes:
> 
> My daughter is 12. She's been using a - very basic - solar calculator
> for maths at school, and the time has come to replace it with something
> a little more advanced. 
> [...]
> I really want to encourage her use of computers, but I don't want to
> put her off... anyone out there with advice?

I can certainly recommend the HP28S.  I'm not sure of your price range.
This calculator is not the least bit intimidating, but is the most
powerful and flexible thing going.  It will certainly encourage anyone
interested in mathematics to play around with number bases, trig, algebra,
statistics, graphing, matrices, and programming.

I learned to program at about your daughter's age and this calculator has
more computing power than either of the machines available to me then.
Do not be too surprised if she turns into a calculator hacker... 

Alonzo Gariepy
alonzo@microsoft