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From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
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Subject: Re: Hp-28c vs. Hp-28s
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Date: 29 Dec 90 17:01:08 GMT
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In article <11815@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>,
mm459504@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller) writes:
|> 
|> After considering my several finanancial problems and the lack of 
|> a serious (read: better than a 41cv) calculator. It brings me to ask
|> the following question:
|> 
|> Just what is better about the 28s and just how little memory does the 
|> 28c have? (it was mentioned in a for sale message that it had 2k, it can't
|> be THAT small could it? that would be like having a mercedes with a 1/4 cup
|> gas tank.

Yep, it's THAT small, and that's a good way of describing it.  Actually, as I
recall, with nothing in memory and with UNDO, LAST, and CMD disabled, it would
say there was only about 1800 bytes free.

Don't forget, however, to keep it in the context of the technology of the day
when it was introduced.  Back then, that was a phenomenal amount of memory to
have in your palm.  Other caculators were still measuring their memories in
"program steps," if they had more than one.  Not that the technology wasn't
there to give it more memory, as the 28S showed soon afterwards, but that a
calculator with more memory than that built in was just unheard of at the time.

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