Introduction - new HP15C owner

[johnb]

Welcome aboard, John.H!

I think you will fit in nicely here!

Your story parallels that of mine and of many others here. I'm a little younger (age 10 when the HP-35 was released) but I too remember drooling over friends' HP's: the 45, 25, 67, and so forth. And for me too those prices were mostly out of reach (or later in the 1980s, not justifiable to my new wife).

Then one day I accidentally tripped across an HP-28s in a yard sale for about $2, in beautiful condition. (I remembered being awestruck when it first came out: symbolics, on a calculator!) I grabbed it and I was hooked.

So [don't] be careful: its an addiction. Fortunately a wholesome and harmless one.

BTW, I, too, had the Sinclair Scientific! Very pretty little thing, but as you said, not really up to the task. LOL... did you have several programs memorized where you could just key them in rapidly from memory? I did! [Ed. for others: the machine did not have continuous memory. And very little space for vars and program, for that matter.]


So, again, whether you own 2 HP's, or 20, or 200, you'll be welcomed with open arms here; we're glad to have you!