bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) (04/14/90)
So tell me, hp owners of the world: is this a first? I not only logged on to my local mainframe with my trusty hp48, but also *ftp'ed* to gmuvax, retrieved some hp software, and downloaded it to the calculator, and never touched a "real computer"'s keyboard the whole time! 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!!" And try *this* on your t.i.: take down ~500 data points in a physics lab, (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 the data, and (with the help of a prewritten shell script) laser print a *really* impressive graph. IMHO, that's what computers (of whatever size) are *for*. Bill. now if they just had tetris... ============================================================================= ===== Bill Gribble Internet: bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu ===== ===== Harvey Mudd College wgribble@hmcvax.claremont.edu ===== ===== Claremont, CA 91711 Bitnet: wgribble@hmcvax.bitnet ===== ===== (714) 621-8000 x2045 ===== ============================================================================= (I'm working on it!)