Crazy good deal on a 50G

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(02-28-2015 03:48 AM)MarkMason Wrote:  I thought I ordered a 50g from Amazon, but after the order was processed it appeared from an Amazon Marketplace seller and fulfilled by Amazon. (I think the "add to cart" button in the listing was linked wrong, or something.) The shipment came while I was in Texas, and when I arrived back home in Arkansas last night I found out the Spanish language version was sent (HP Product # F2229AA # B17).

I am sending it back and reordered the version with English Language packaging, HP Part number: MFG #F2229AA#ABA.

As always, Amazon was very good about handling this and offered free one day shipping.

This is my first posting, but not my first HP. That was a 29C in 1978 while in engineering school. Been hooked ever since. Recently wanted to dabble in a little programming for fun, downloaded some simulators, and picked the 50g. For 3 weeks in Texas (no internet where I was) I paged through the User Guide pdf and worked with the emulator side by side. I have a couple of chapters to go but so far this has worked out well.

Also just ordered the USB flash drive with the HP Museum archive. Looking forward to the books by Wickes !!!

Mark

Welcome to the Forum Mark, thanks for posting.

You will enjoy the 50g, it is truly an amazing machine. Suggest you also get a 2GB SD card; you can write (or use existing) simple backup programs to instantly save you state info. As you explore RPL and in particular SysRPL, you will find you will likely crash the machine, but in a few keystrokes, you are right back where you were.

You definitely should check out Eric Rechlin's website http://www.hpcalc.org, it is the place for RPL tools, docs, programs and info. Eric also sells machines, cables and accessories; check them out.

And you are right, you will really Enjoy Bill Wickes' books. They are 48G focused, so won't cover all the 50g features by far, but they will teach you a deeper understanding of RPL and some subtle techniques for writing a wide variety of RPL from advanced math to system programming.

You're in the right place, and I encourage you to participate in the discussions as you will certainly get more out of them.