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To: sarcasm
I still have the HP financial calculator that I bought when I was in grad school over 20 years age. The last time I tried using it, it still worked.

I still use the HP-35 calculator I bought in 1972. It works fine. I particularly like the reverse-polish notation. How did students ever work Thermodynamics problems with a slide-rule?

7 posted on 10/06/2002 10:00:17 AM PDT by bimbo
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To: bimbo
Thermodynamics problems with a slide-rule?

Hey, I can still do rectangular to polar conversion on my 10" Post sliderule. (I have a crib sheet in the overleaf of my CRC Tables).

16 posted on 10/06/2002 10:11:04 AM PDT by snopercod
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