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Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd

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00 Offline Dutch_Tooler

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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #210 on: October 12, 2018, 07:47:22 AM
:nanadance:  :nanadance:


 :facepalm: you know you could far more easily just download one, or more, of the probably, by now, one zillion calculator apps and do away with the slide rule altogether, do you?
Blasphemy!  :twak:
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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #211 on: October 19, 2018, 06:27:27 AM
This thread needs a bump. :D

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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #212 on: October 20, 2018, 12:09:20 PM
speaking of calculators, they use the keypad from a CASIO MQ-1 on Boba Fett's gauntlet

https://www.shapeways.com/product/NHD84ECMW/custom-casio-mq-1-calculator-key-pad
The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.


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Reply #213 on: October 20, 2018, 01:11:28 PM
Noooooo... don't say these things!!!  :ahhh


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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #214 on: October 20, 2018, 01:14:19 PM
Noooooo... don't say these things!!!  :ahhh
Don’t like having the mystery spoiled, eh?  :D
Hooked, like everyone else. ;)

All hail the hook!


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Reply #215 on: October 20, 2018, 01:26:51 PM
Noooooo... don't say these things!!!  :ahhh
Don’t like having the mystery spoiled, eh?  :D



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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #216 on: October 20, 2018, 02:39:22 PM
speaking of calculators, they use the keypad from a CASIO MQ-1 on Boba Fett's gauntlet

https://www.shapeways.com/product/NHD84ECMW/custom-casio-mq-1-calculator-key-pad
*Mind Blown*. :o
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Reply #217 on: October 20, 2018, 07:50:08 PM
This thread needs a bump. :D

Photos of my small calculator group.

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love the Commodore!   
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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #218 on: October 21, 2018, 02:59:31 AM
This thread needs a bump. :D

Photos of my small calculator group.

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love the Commodore!
Thank you, detron! :cheers:
It is definitely a charming piece of techistory. Its' processor is one of the worst I've ever encountered on a vintage calculator. It almost seems to error out for no reason at times and is not forgiving of entry mistakes. But, that makes it quite neat.  :)
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Reply #219 on: October 22, 2018, 06:16:56 PM
Great thread Detron!

My first calculator was a POS super cheap Sharp that we got issued in school and had to use on all tests through junior high. It was small, white, had pink buttons and was totally unreliable. Often it would not register when a button was pushed, resulting in wrong answers. I guess this was good, as I learned to double check my calculations.

Through high school and college I used Ti82, Ti83 and a HP 30s. They all died at some point during my early working years as an engineer.

Here is my current small collection. The Ti 1025 (a gift from my brother) and the HP 39gs is in daily use at the office. I also have cheap Casio scientific calculator in my jacket pocket at work. Ill post a pic later.

Ps. Thanks to this thread I had to check out how RPN calculators work, and ended up ordering a HP 35s  after watching a few youtube vids :twak:
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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #220 on: October 22, 2018, 06:58:39 PM
Great thread Detron!

My first calculator was a POS super cheap Sharp that we got issued in school and had to use on all tests through junior high. It was small, white, had pink buttons and was totally unreliable. Often it would not register when a button was pushed, resulting in wrong answers. I guess this was good, as I learned to double check my calculations.

Through high school and college I used Ti82, Ti83 and a HP 30s. They all died at some point during my early working years as an engineer.

Here is my current small collection. The Ti 1025 (a gift from my brother) and the HP 39gs is in daily use at the office. I also have cheap Casio scientific calculator in my jacket pocket at work. Ill post a pic later.

Ps. Thanks to this thread I had to check out how RPN calculators work, and ended up ordering a HP 35s  after watching a few youtube vids :twak:

Ha Ha!  glad to help!

I now LOVE RPN.  The 35S is pretty sweet.  download the manual while you wait.

also, if you end up loving the RPN,  check out the 48G or GX, or the 50G.
If I can help, let me know 


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Reply #221 on: October 22, 2018, 07:15:06 PM
A long, long time ago I learned RPN and the associated programming languages Forth and PostScript.
I liked it, but moved on to Lisp, losing the Reversed part and so gaining a more natural writing order, at the cost of reintroducing parentheses.

PS In my younger years calculators were less powerful. It made sense to program your own on a PC, and to add functions.specific to your line of work.
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Reply #222 on: October 22, 2018, 07:28:11 PM
Great thread Detron!

My first calculator was a POS super cheap Sharp that we got issued in school and had to use on all tests through junior high. It was small, white, had pink buttons and was totally unreliable. Often it would not register when a button was pushed, resulting in wrong answers. I guess this was good, as I learned to double check my calculations.

Through high school and college I used Ti82, Ti83 and a HP 30s. They all died at some point during my early working years as an engineer.

Here is my current small collection. The Ti 1025 (a gift from my brother) and the HP 39gs is in daily use at the office. I also have cheap Casio scientific calculator in my jacket pocket at work. Ill post a pic later.

Ps. Thanks to this thread I had to check out how RPN calculators work, and ended up ordering a HP 35s  after watching a few youtube vids :twak:

Ha Ha!  glad to help!

I now LOVE RPN.  The 35S is pretty sweet.  download the manual while you wait.

also, if you end up loving the RPN,  check out the 48G or GX, or the 50G.

:tu: :D
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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #223 on: October 22, 2018, 09:08:22 PM

Here is my current small collection. The Ti 1025 (a gift from my brother) and the HP 39gs is in daily use at the office. I also have cheap Casio scientific calculator in my jacket pocket at work. Ill post a pic later.

Nice assortment, Grathr! :like:
The TI-1025 is a very good calculator to use. IMO of course.
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Reply #224 on: October 23, 2018, 06:38:01 PM

Here is my current small collection. The Ti 1025 (a gift from my brother) and the HP 39gs is in daily use at the office. I also have cheap Casio scientific calculator in my jacket pocket at work. Ill post a pic later.

Nice assortment, Grathr! :like:
The TI-1025 is a very good calculator to use. IMO of course.

Thanks!
Its fun to use. Built like a tank :D

Heres the Casio fx991ex I have in my jacket pocket.

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Reply #225 on: October 23, 2018, 06:48:30 PM
Now that is old-school EDC, Grathr! :like:
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Reply #226 on: October 23, 2018, 06:49:28 PM
I got a bit bored and put batteries in the lighted display calculators. :)

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Reply #227 on: October 23, 2018, 07:29:15 PM
Ordered some new batteries for my Casio fx-4500P, CR2025 and CR1216  :)

Hopefully I get it back up and running in couple of weeks!  :cheers:
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Reply #228 on: October 23, 2018, 07:35:13 PM
Didn't you love calculators as a kid, typing '58008' on one and turning it around?  ::)

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Reply #229 on: October 23, 2018, 07:41:20 PM
Didn't you love calculators as a kid, typing '58008' on one and turning it around?  ::)

 :facepalm:
:rofl:
Indeed, but I used 5318008. :D
And the teacher friendly, 0.1134. :)
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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #230 on: October 26, 2018, 12:23:08 AM
I got a bit bored and put batteries in the lighted display calculators. :)

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Holy cow, you could almost read by all that light!

Very cool!

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Reply #231 on: October 26, 2018, 02:29:04 AM
Thank you, Def!  :cheers:
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Reply #232 on: October 26, 2018, 02:27:56 PM
Ordered some new batteries for my Casio fx-4500P, CR2025 and CR1216  :)

Hopefully I get it back up and running in couple of weeks!  :cheers:

It's alive! IT'S ALIVEEEE!!!



And after some 20 years I might add!  :cheers:

 :D
« Last Edit: October 26, 2018, 02:38:18 PM by AlephZero »
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Reply #233 on: October 26, 2018, 02:59:19 PM
Just fed it one of each





As good as new!  :cheers:
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Reply #234 on: October 27, 2018, 02:24:32 AM
Very nice, Aleph! :like:
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Reply #235 on: October 27, 2018, 02:55:45 AM
Just fed it one of each

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As good as new!  :cheers:


awesome!    glad it still worked.
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Reply #236 on: October 28, 2018, 07:37:25 PM
-Knívleysur maður er lívleysur maður.
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Re: Detron's Calculator Experience, or even more proof I am a nerd
Reply #237 on: October 30, 2018, 11:52:39 PM
Man it would be so cool to try and surf the forum on an old calculator!  :D

Anyone up for a challenge?  :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9PCf2B7lzA

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Reply #238 on: November 01, 2018, 01:07:40 PM
Man it would be so cool to try and surf the forum on an old calculator!  :D

Anyone up for a challenge?  :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9PCf2B7lzA

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that would be like cutting a 28 inch pizza with you 91mm vic scissors
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Reply #239 on: November 01, 2018, 02:25:44 PM
I never said it was ideal, just that it would be cool to do once.



Once.

Bonus points for anyone who gets that reference....  :tu:

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