If I were to buy an LED model...

[Don Shepherd]

(11-15-2019 01:43 AM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I was able to write the usual mod 30 prime factor finder on it, but without subroutines, you instead have to build a loop that strips digits off of a "stream" of offsets stored as .2122 and .42424626, and it ends up being slower than just testing all the odd numbers.

I think that algorithm will live as long as you and I do!

You know you're not going to be happy until you get a 65, the first programmable handheld calculator and the only calculator that can process the digits 8 and 9 as octal values!

I'm still building my 1950's data processing punch card system in anticipation of the coming armegeddon. I've got 2 portable keypunches now, 2 Port-a-punch's, 2 IBM printer control-tape punches, and 4,000+ blank 80-column punchcards. Now all I need to do is build a fallout shelter to put them all in.