lien@plains.UUCP (Craig Lien) (05/02/90)
In article <6218@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) writes: > and never touched a "real computer"'s keyboard the whole time! ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^----look below. >I hate to go on and on about this machine, but, to paraphrase a post of a > while back, "this isn't any f**king calculator!!" ^^^^^ ^ ^vv^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^----You said ... "and never touched a "real computer"'s keyboard the whole time!" > take down ~500 data points in a physics lab, ^^^----500? Are you pulling some out of you a*s? > (using the MatrixWriter, which looks to easily-impressible bystanders > like a spreadsheet), do some preliminary graphing, and if the data looks > alright - > presto! whip out a serial cable, log on the vax, upload ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^----I don't carry a backpack. |||||||----alright? with ~500 data points it should look cluttered. > the data, and (with the help of a prewritten shell script) laser ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^---- A friend of mine and I have a grob printer working "STUD", look for PC-AT EXE next week. About the grob printer, I'm sorry, it's an epson dot quality since that would be the most practical! Besides, the hp-48 display isn't quite the resolution of a laser printer. So it would be ridiculously stupid to make a hp_grob - > hp_ps (grob isn't a unit and ps is short for postscript) > print a *really* impressive graph. The graphs look very unique when printed out, they will look good on the lab that is due tomorrow. You'll never have to pencil a graph into your notes again. >now if they just had tetris... ^^^^----I don't think hp will put tetris on an expantion card the cards have more practical uses than that. >(I'm working on it!) ^ ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^----Good! Craig. p.s. ps isn't a unit either. -- We've come a long way since the world was flat. lien@plains.nodak.edu