[Coco] Qualifications Committee Planed at CoCofest. Was: 6309 with a side of half cooked GIME?

[Mark McDougall]

On 14/05/2011 8:14 AM, Frank Pittel wrote:

> You only have 2 HP calculators?? :-)

I used a Casio all through high school, and subsequently bought an updated 
version for uni. That ended up getting chewed by a dog, so I replaced it 
with an fx-5000F, which is still in mint condition due to it rarely being used.

When I started Electrical Engineering, I decided I needed a 'serious' 
calculator and bought the 48S. Absolutely loved it! As mentioned elsewhere 
in this thread, the top-row LCD indicators died, but I still use it.

A long time back I bought a printer that shipped with a free HP-10B. Still 
got it and the manual in mint condition, probably used for less than 5 
minutes, though I tossed the box.

A few years back when my 48S LCD problem appeared, I looked at upgrading to 
the latest HP graphing calculator. But after reading about the problems and 
the cheap construction, I decided against it.

I do recall an open-source project a while back to design a new calculator 
in the style of the HP 48 series... here it is...

<http://www.hpcalc.org/qonos.php>

Regards,

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