HP 35s Scientific Calculator

[Exile Machine]

At one time I owned nearly every HP scientific calculator produced. Hardest to find was the HP-10C. I used to scour thrift stores around Austin to pick them up for a few bucks apiece. My favorites were the red LED units, the original HP-35, HP-55, HP-80, 67/97. Was a card carrying member of the Personal Programming Center, even wrote some articles for the PPC Journal. Still have a PPC ROM, once had a carton full of PPC ROM Manuals (as big as a phone book). Now you can get all the journals and the PPC ROM manual on DVD.

First machine I ever programmed was a TI-55 / red LED variety. TI quality at the time gave you multiple digits per keypress. Garbage. Quickly graduated to the 41CX in late 83.

The part of HP that made the calculators I think is now called Agilent. The current crop of HP calculators after the Agilent split, I don't know who's doing that but it's not the same quality.

RPN rules.

-Mark

[BitterOldMan]

nerds.

Nerds rule! I have a HP 33E and currently still use my HP32SII. I remember using my college roommate's programmable HP calculator to solve a really tough Bayesian statistics problem, so that even my Professor was impressed.

I can't find my K&E slide rule. When I went the college, the calculator age just started. No calculators, cell phones, no voice mail, no fax machines, no internet, no personal computers, and worse of all, Glocks were not invented by Glaston Glock yet. We wrote computer programs on punch cards using keypunch machines and carried our computer programs in boxes of 2,000 punch cards.

[dwtt]

I still have my HP 32e that I used in high school and part of college. The battery pack died and it was only usable with the adapter plugged in. I was offered some money for it ( $40) and I wondered why someone would want a dead calculator with LED display. My HP 32s is what I use now.

[Paindoc]

NERD?I'll show you nerd. I'm a Wramblin" Wreck from Georgia Tech, and I carried this from my belt for 4 years. 1968 model 1460 and original case. I also have and daily carry (Concealed, of course) the 5" little brother VersaLog. People freak out when they see it in operation.

[bwiese]

OK, we're onto slide rules now.

I was in 7th grade (1977ish) and before I got a 'good' calculator my dad made me learn how to use a slide rule.

So I had a $2 one, 6" from Borden plastics, I got from Walgreens. Then Pops bought me a a nice Teledyne Post coated bamboo one.
Later at flea markets (after total calculator takeover) I picked up two of those nice Pickett alum. sliderules.

I still have all of 'em today. I should freak people out at work and bring one to a meeting when I'm the dude that has to run numbers.

[Satex]

nerds.

Why thank you!

Remember, all the cool girls go for the jocks in high school, but after that, they come to us.