Baby’s First Calculator!

[DrewNicholson]

The HP-12C Platinum from ebay

Teach your baby to appreciate quality!
More interesting than your old smartphone!

Enjoy these wonderful benefits:
Color Scheme : colorful - perfect
Battery Door : too big to swallow and hard to remove
- leave battery out until child learns to use buttons and stops putting *everything* in mouth
Buttons : clicky and lots of them
Toxic: not, perfect for tasting
Chewable : not, excellent for teething
Weight : light for little arms
Size : just right for small hands
Age Range : 9 months until ready to learn advanced conditionals and looping
Sad if she destroys it : not really

Warning : may need to occasionally return to RPN mode to avoid algebraic neurological trauma

Happy Saturday!

[rprosperi]

(05-14-2022 05:50 PM)DrewNicholson Wrote:  Chewable : not, excellent for teething

While Babies and Beagles are not the same, I had an HP-42S that would disagree with this claim, at least to some extent. That said, even though very clearly a victim of excessive chewing, it still worked fine. This became an HHC prize table gift several years ago, I wonder if it's still going strong??

[DrewNicholson]

(05-14-2022 06:11 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  While Babies and Beagles are not the same, I had an HP-42S that would disagree with this claim, at least to some extent. That said, even though very clearly a victim of excessive chewing, it still worked fine. This became an HHC prize table gift several years ago, I wonder if it's still going strong??

I had a beagle once. I didn't know anything could survive a beagle. They are persistent.

[toml_12953]

I had that same look on my face when I got my first RPN calculator (HP-45) I know exactly how she feels!

[Jlouis]

What a nice picture! Amazing! God bless this child.

Thanks for put a smile in my face!

Cheers

[Felix Gross]

Bob's dog operated HP 42S happily lives in a semi-retired state, fully functional though. Thanks Bob for donating this machine.

These days I keep the DM 42 in the desktop drawer for rather frequent (though rather primitive) use.

Felix

[Thomas Klemm]

HELLO CUTIE

[DrewNicholson]

Aloha,

I have now learned 2 things:

1) don't bother with too much of a write up of attempted humor when there is a cute baby picture

2) I have apparently taught my child that when she finds her way into my office she heads directly for the only working woodstock I have:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkfXbjQEO0N2hNV6J89b...g?e=0ENmIi

Mahalo

[Harald]

   

My Dad showning my Daughter the HP35. She now is 6 years old and has somewhat lost interest. I am sure she will regain interest when she realises that calculators are not only toys, but also make life easier
Unfortunately schools insist on a particular model of calculator, so an HP will be a problem.
By the way, this is how I ended up with old HP calculators: When I was in school I had a 32S, but I wasn't allowed to use it for exams. I needed a non programmable calculator for that. And that is who I got my dads HP45.

[DrewNicholson]

And now I know she has developed object permanence.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkfXbjQEO0N2hNV-eDFswbX9VQpkrw

Her KIM-1 simulator arrives today …

She has regular baby toys as well :-)