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To: re_nortex
I saved my pennies and bought a TI SR-52 in High School. A friend had the HP programmable equivalent.

I never could get the hang of RPN, even though it was supposed to be “faster” with fewer keystrokes.

3 posted on 03/27/2014 6:25:00 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
I saved my pennies and bought a TI SR-52 in High School. A friend had the HP programmable equivalent. I never could get the hang of RPN, even though it was supposed to be “faster” with fewer keystrokes.

TI vs. HP set the stage for a whole lot of other "Holy Wars" that followed in the dawn of the tech era: vi vs. emacs, big vs. little endian, BSD vs. AT&T Unix and more. Since I had Lisp programming language background, RPN came easier to me so I had to slow down and think a bit when I had to deal with the TI notation.

5 posted on 03/27/2014 6:31:02 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: Yo-Yo
There's one on Ebay with 0 bids that starts at $250 (someone's smoking crack!)

But then there's also one that has 4 bids and is at $10.

20 posted on 03/27/2014 7:01:53 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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