HP 48G - what next?

[BruceH]

(02-23-2019 06:58 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  

(02-23-2019 04:22 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  I'm 99% sure that the author of the infamous phrase "Frozen Hamster Butt" (to describe the color of the HP 49G) was Chris Campbell, a great HP 48 programmer and prolific contributor to comp.sys.hp48 under multiple pseudonyms. I *think* that he first used his hilarious FHB description in a posting under the name Tiny Wanda, but I haven't been successful in finding that posting.

The earliest reference I can find from The Almighty Google is this post from 1999-05-23: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/co...Q_KMo5vP8J

EDIT: Also this from 1999-05-24 which seems to be a transcript from an IRC (or maybe a bulletin board) conversation or something: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys...SXFA16AmkJ

Back in 2006, Joe attributed the phrase to TranslucentAmoebae (i.e. Chris) in this post.

FWIW, I don't recall ever seeing an 'original post'. But then again, TA's stuff was usually so rambling that I may have skipped it.