TI-58C and TI-59

[Garth Wilson]

(03-29-2019 01:54 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello!

(03-29-2019 01:46 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  But of course it's not RPN, and the keyboard is kind of awful.

But it had AOS which I personally prefer over RPN (if I am allowed to write that here...). And the keyboard was indeed a bit bouncy, but no calculator keyboard ever made before or after that time matched that of the pre 1980 HP calculators.

That was Dave Britten who wrote that, not me. As far as AOS versus RPN goes, I could have gone either way for a short time after I had both; but RPN quickly won out when it came to controlling instruments on the workbench and taking data from them, which is what I really got the HP-41cx for, with HP-IL and the various interface converters. For many years now I have wanted to never see an algebraic language again. I sure liked the looks of the 58c and 59 though!