David Billington wrote:
Is that HP 32 reverse polish notation. I have used a RPN HP since about
1977 and using the common ones really screws me up. My HP 11C from 1982
is still going strong and only on the 3rd set of batteries. I lost it
once at a college and 1st lecture back the following year the lecturer
asks if it belonged to anyone so I got it back. On speaking to the
technitions at the college who found it they said it looked like a real
good calculator and would have kept it if they could figure out how it
worked.

Yes, the HP32S is RPN. I purchased a HP41C in 1981 and have been
using that daily as I was more still more comfortable with it
than the HP32. After finding the fraction feature on the 32S, I
think it will be seeing more use. And my HP 11C stays by my
bedstand for those back of the envelope kind of problems that
keep me up at night ;-)

Also, there are several HP RPN emulators for Palms and Windows CE
devices. I've got an HP41CX emulator on my Palm, but the only
problem is that it lacks the wonderful feel of the real HP
keyboards.

I'll have to look into the HP33S. Wonder if I can still sell the
32 and 12C on ebay while the mark is still hot for those.

See http://www.rskey.org/hp.asp and http://www.hpmuseum.org/ for
good info on all the HP calcs.


-ask