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Article #128Re: Debacle after 1999
From: pe... Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 19:06
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 19:06
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> I always wondered if the machine > was programmable somehow or other by means of this. It would have been > a nice machine, since the H-P was much faster than the other traditional > machines of the (early 1980's) day, the TI 55 and 57. You're out of step. The TI machines of the day were the 58C and the 59. I had a 59, and it was much faster than the HP 67 or HP 41 on every benchmark I tried. I know I did Euclid's algorithm and Newton's method. This was before the seive, or I'd have done that too. TI Australia had a newsletter for us "big spenders" (or maybe it was a user group thing), and they were talking about a machine with user programmable ROM modules, tentatively named the TI-60. It never came out. I don't know if it was killed when the calculator market crashed, or if it was just smoke to keep people from going out and buying HP 41Cs. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva <pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com> `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Debacle after 1999 Keywords: HP-45 Message-ID: <4867@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 1 Jan 90 19:06:58 GMT References: <1923@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> <5784@umd5.umd.edu> <1989Dec14.204421.11808@cs.rochester.edu> <44708@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1989Dec24.062618.3963@smsc.sony.com> <32434@news.Think.COM> Reply-To: pe...@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 19 Posted: Mon Jan 1 20:06:58 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit