Spice Low Power

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(11-08-2019 05:38 PM)BobVA Wrote:  Excellent news! That would be a great Christmas present for the community!

If you do develop a solderless installation process, I'd still like to have the option to solder it in, just to increase the reliability.

Glad to hear that soldering will not only be accepted but the preferred option. This will be the way to go. Indeed the HP engineers must have had bad times when they discovered that their product had a major design flaw with the reliability of the contacts.

Also I do not understand why they made a LED display with 11 digits, but the left most digit contains only a minus bar. Did this significantly reduce manufacturing cost? Or is the slightly longer Minus segment significant. As a result the Minus of the exponent has not the same length as the mantissa.

Nevertheless the SPICE models are fine calculators. They look more modern than the Woodstocks, and they are not brown.

Bernhard