The HP-12C
Added 2019-01-13 15:07:09 +0000 UTCThere are a couple of less optimal spots in the edit and the color balancing was surprisingly challenging because there was not black reference. I guess I could really use a full color card.
This video ended up a lot more tutorial like than I anticipated. I'm okay with that and am curious to see how people like it. There is a lot of depth to this calculator so there is plenty to cover.
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I have a few calculators like this this that I'll be covering at some point. I recently got a Casio fx-451M which is a really cool calculator and related to the IF-8000 I was sent a while ago. So there may be a double bill video featuring the two of them. I haven't decided yet, the IF-8000 should probably have it's own video because it's pretty crazy cool.
Tech Tangents
2019-01-16 15:02:20 +0000 UTCThe WP-34S is a really cool project, I didn't know about that! I appreciate the offer to borrow yours to check them out, I'm not ready to make another video on this topic yet but I'll keep that in mind in the future if I come back to this topic (which I am very likely to do). I'm tempted to try making my own RPN calculator from scratch, so I might try doing that some time as well.
Tech Tangents
2019-01-16 14:58:07 +0000 UTCIf you don't care about RPN or HP styling - the old TI-34 was a decent "programmer" calculator with hex/dec/bin/etc as well as scientific ops and fractional math. Anyway, enjoyed the video! HP stuff is all foreign to me.
mike
2019-01-14 01:32:26 +0000 UTCI got interested in RPN a little while back, and I ended up looking into cheaper alternatives. I ended up with the two "entry level" RPN scientific calculators: the HP-35S, and the community project WP-34S. The WP-34S is built off an HP financial calculator which is another re-programmable ARM, and a set of stickers to cover and repurpose the keys. I'm not sure if this is still the case, as the HP-30b has since gone out of production, but at the time, building a WP-34S was the cheapest way to get into RPN, and it has clear advantages over the HP built 35S. If you're interested, I can let you borrow the two. They're small and I'm in the US so I'd be willing to cover two-way postage, shouldn't be expensive.
Paul Hollinsky
2019-01-13 19:34:56 +0000 UTC
