[HN Gopher] Build Your Own Classic HP Calculator Emulator
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       Build Your Own Classic HP Calculator Emulator
        
       Author : erickhill
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-03-26 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (paxer.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (paxer.net)
        
       | Aardwolf wrote:
       | Nice, I'm a sucker for things like this!
       | 
       | Why such low resolution photographs though (can't even properly
       | see what the buttons are like), and why use a framework for the
       | images that doesn't even allow to do "view image" to be able to
       | zoom in to it?
        
         | woleium wrote:
         | old site is old :)
        
           | Aardwolf wrote:
           | Really? Making it difficult to view images by original URL is
           | more common on modern sites than old ones :)
        
       | fmajid wrote:
       | SwissMicros makes recreations of the classic HP calculators that
       | are arguably superior to the originals, specially the DM15L and
       | the DM-42:
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       | https://www.swissmicros.com/products
        
         | copperx wrote:
         | I now know what my birthday present to myself is going to be.
        
       | teddyh wrote:
       | > _I wonder why there aren't any RPN calculators anymore._
       | 
       | In Unix, terminal: dc
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       | In Unix, X11: xcalc -rpn
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       | In Emacs: M-x calc
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       | On Android: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=rpn
        
         | Jtsummers wrote:
         | Apple's builtin calculator in macOS has an RPN mode. One click
         | from a menu and it becomes the default after that, IIRC.
        
         | hungryforcodes wrote:
         | I love your list -- but that you have to spell them out,
         | indicates they're not really that adopted.
        
         | trasz wrote:
         | Also Free42; no idea about Android, but works perfectly on an
         | iPhone. (Which, funnily enough, almost exactly matches HP42's
         | physical dimensions.)
        
           | Baeocystin wrote:
           | Droid48 on the play store.
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           | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48&hl=.
           | ..
           | 
           | As my (still functioning!) HP-48 was my first True Calculator
           | Love, I am happy that this app exists.
        
             | copperx wrote:
             | I'm still bitter someone stole my 48G. But Droid48 does
             | everything it did (and it's always in my pocket!).
        
             | trasz wrote:
             | HP48 was my first HP calculator too, but over the years I
             | realized I like 42 more. 48 was great back in the day, but
             | nowadays I don't need to use it for more complicated stuff
             | - and for simpler things 42 is just more convenient.
        
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