[comp.sys.handhelds] Calculator Nostalgia

Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) (12/28/90)

   Looking Back
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Fifteen Years Ago This Month
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Feature articles from "HP65 Notes" (later to become the PPC Journal) 
Volume 2 Number 10 (Dec. 1975):

  "HP75 - A Next Step?" (Wish list for the HP65 successor) by Curt
   Rostenbach
  "HP65 Hardware" (Several pages of schematics) by Richard Nelson
  "HP55/25 Notes" column featured games programs - 3-Digit Bagels, Concen-
   tration, Timer program. Richard Vanderburgh and Hal Brown
  "SR52" - (An introduction to TI's first programmable) by Richard Nelson

Ten Years Ago This Month
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From "PPC Journal" Volume 7 Number 10 (Dec. 1980):

  "Synthetic Programming Tips" (HP41) by Clifford Stern
  "HP41C Byte Loader" by William Cheeseman and Keith Jarrett
  Several articles on the progress of the PPC ROM (HP41) project
   (various authors)

Five Years Ago This Month
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From PPC Journal Volume 12 Number 12 (Dec. 1985):

  "Casio Does it Again" (Intro to Casio FX-7000G) by John Hansen
  "Function Timer" (HP41) by Charles Jess
  "Executing Extended Memory Program Files - A Fresh Approach" (HP41) by
   Charles Jess
  "HP41 Mcode Print and View Time & Date" by Hajo David
  "FIND Command for the HP71B" by Michael Fiedler

From the CHHU Chronicle (Club for Hewlett-Packard Handheld Users)
Volume 2 Number 7 (Nov/Dec 1985):

  "Thinkjet Barcodes with HP41 Plotter & Extended Functions Modules" by
   Gerhard Kruse
  "LEX Files from Paris - Lots of Good Stuff" (HP71B) by Pierre David and
   Philippe Guez
  "RAM Devices for the HP41" by Jeremy Smith
  "Exploring the HP71 IDS Part 6" by John Baker

From Datafile (from the Handheld and Portable Computer Club [London]) 
Volume 4 Number 7 (Oct/Nov 1985):

  "Sieve Analysis - HP41" by M. Williamson
  "World Clock Routine" (HP41) by Mark Wilding
  "Unit Conversion for the HP75" by Roger Wiley
  "Catalogue Bugs with ZenROM" (HP41) by John Bruce & Son
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Many thanks to all the folks who made it interesting and worthwhile 
throughout these past two decades....

Jake Schwartz