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

[Steve Bjork]

Back in the day, I loved my Casio Computer Math 100.  It had a large, 
easy to read display and was easy to switch from Bin, Oct, Dec and Hex 
modes.  But the best option was setting the bit width of your 
calculation.  If I remember right, the bit width modes where 8, 16, 32 
or 64 bits.  Great for doing Assemble coding!

It was a dark day when a shelf fall on my last Computer math 100.  I did 
weap as I held its shattered body in my hands. I kept say over and over, 
"why I did not by a case of them since they were only $12 each?"  But it 
was to late since the CM100 was no longer on the market.

Steve

On 5/13/2011 7:13 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
> 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,
>