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From: tomm@voodoo.voodoo.uucp (Tom Mackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP-38E
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Date: 5 Nov 90 21:40:43 GMT
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I just purchased an HP-38E financial calculator (I've just gotta
stop looking in the "Little Nickel"...  the SAF getting way too
low these days ;^) and have a few questions:

    It came with zip documentation....  is HP pretty good about
    supplying User's Manuals for their older stuff?  Anyone
    willing to part with a manual, or willing to make copies of
    some of the 38E specific stuff?

    Hitting G-MEM shows p-08 r-20 (8 program steps and 20
    registers).  Does this imply that they can be re-allocated
    like the HP-41 series?  If so, how?  Seems like
    programability implies a bit more useful address space.

    How do you use the Delta-DAYS and DATE keys?

    What is %T?  (This is probably a stoopid question, but what
    the hey!)

Most of the rest of it I've already figured out, but any other
hints or nifties would be appreciated.

PS:

    (SAF = Spousal Acceptance Factor)

PPS:

    What can you say to your spouse that will make them believe
    that buying old HP's is better than putting the same amount
    of money in savings????

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Tom Mackey       (206) 865-6575        tomm@voodoo.boeing.com
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