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My HP Calculators...
12-21-2018, 12:19 AM (This post was last modified: 12-21-2018 07:15 PM by calcphil12c11c.)
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My HP Calculators...
I've had a few HP calculators over the years. I suspect some of you have had more. Here is what I have had.

Got my first HP 45 in 1973. That's right, 1973 because I worked in the summer at HP in Palo Alto, CA building their signal generators before I went to college. Good deal too, only $200 with the HP discount. Received it in the mail I think around September time frame and it was the hit of the school. Nobody had ever seen anything like this.

I was the first person in the college to test out of the slide rule class with a calculator. Normally it was a 2 hour test using a slide rule. I finished the entire test in 13 mins. Only got a 93 on it because I didn't know how to use the EEX yet ;-).

During my next few years the HP 25 came out. I sold my HP 45 (never should have done that) and got this one. However it was stolen.

Fast forward to graduation and my first job at HP itself. Worked there for 28 years and retired at age 50 in 2005. During that time HP gave me 16C for most everything since I was a computer engineer. Bought a HP 67 for myself and still have that (card reader does not work). Also got a HP 12C actually 2 of them as HP gave them out a gifts.

I have a HP 48G and a 20S given to me by some HP engineers that fixed them. They were no trouble found units. The 48G is somewhere in the basement.

I have found many free HP calculator emulators for the iPhone that I have downloaded and enjoy using now. Not quite the same thing but it's nice to see them all again.

Anywho, that's my story.
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My HP Calculators... - calcphil12c11c - 12-21-2018 12:19 AM
RE: My HP Calculators... - edryer - 12-21-2018, 12:32 AM
RE: My HP Calculators... - Steve Simpkin - 12-21-2018, 04:16 AM
RE: My HP Calculators... - Jake Schwartz - 12-21-2018, 06:16 PM
RE: My HP Calculators... - calcphil12c11c - 12-21-2018, 07:13 PM
RE: My HP Calculators... - pinkman - 12-21-2018, 11:44 PM



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