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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Demos, Surveying programs, and all that...
Message-ID: <8655@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 20 Jul 90 20:17:01 GMT
References: <1990Jul20.052439.23763@csuchico.edu> <5317@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <5317@darkstar.ucsc.edu> dove@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ray Rischpater) writes:
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|In article <1990Jul20.052439.23763@csuchico.edu> lorner@cscihp.UUCP (Lance Orner) writes:
|>Couple of questions:

|>Does HP have some sort of demo program that fits in the 48, to show off some
|>of what it can do?  If not, it might not be a bad idea -- I like showing off
|>my calculator, but I don't have an efficient way of doing it.
|Hmm. I'm getting mine early next week (I ordered it this morning.  :) )  That 
|might be a good first programming project, especially as my parents say the 
|thing's a waste of money and won't sit around while I dig through menus and 
|manuals (Hey, a new role-playing game for HP Calculator enthusiasts? M&M. Hmm.)
|and stuff.  Give me a week or so to play around, and I'll post something ASAP.

There is a demo program available from the HP BBS; check previous
postings for the number, and also check the comp.sys.handhelds
archives; someone may have uploaded it.

A version of the demo is also available for the IBM PC, doing exactly
the same thing, with a clever graphic display (albeit at a coarse
resolution) of the top half of an HP48SX.


                                               | "The three most dangerous
 Sean Malloy                                   | things in the world are a
 Navy Personnel Research & Development Center  | programmer with a soldering
 San Diego, CA 92152-6800                      | iron, a hardware type with a
 malloy@nprdc.navy.mil                         | program patch, and a user
                                               | with an idea."