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How About a Prime RPN Keystroke-Programmable Calculator? - Jake Schwartz - 03-29-2016 06:20 PM
Hi,
Perhaps this subject is like beating a dead horse and I might have missed it here somewhere. Has anyone given consideration to developing a (undoubtedly large) PPL program for the Prime which turns it into a touchscreen-enabled programmable RPN calculator? I know that Walter Bonin considers this platform to be "battleship" large, but I think it would be quite interesting to see a project which starts out as a simpler RPN calculator and gradually evolves into a WP-34S-class application. I suppose if I had an iOS device running the WP34S app, it wouldn't matter as much, but physical hard keys still seem superior to me for the non-menu-related stuff. Just a thought.
Thanks,
Jake
RE: How About a Prime RPN Keystroke-Programmable Calculator? - Han - 03-29-2016 07:07 PM
I think someone was actually working on a program that was supposed to mimmick the RPL system/stack from the HP48 series. I am having a hard time finding it now but they were attempting to do it via user keys
RE: How About a Prime RPN Keystroke-Programmable Calculator? - Stevetuc - 04-05-2016 06:15 AM
(03-29-2016 06:20 PM)Jake Schwartz Wrote: Hi,
Perhaps this subject is like beating a dead horse and I might have missed it here somewhere. Has anyone given consideration to developing a (undoubtedly large) PPL program for the Prime which turns it into a touchscreen-enabled programmable RPN calculator? I know that Walter Bonin considers this platform to be "battleship" large, but I think it would be quite interesting to see a project which starts out as a simpler RPN calculator and gradually evolves into a WP-34S-class application. I suppose if I had an iOS device running the WP34S app, it wouldn't matter as much, but physical hard keys still seem superior to me for the non-menu-related stuff. Just a thought.
Thanks,
Jake
It's been done here, by Eddie Shore :
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-3301.html
http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-2418.html
/Steve