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...
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