When Shann and I were children (16) we started "going steady" or "going
out" as kids say these days. Her mother didn't like me (what's to like
after all?), so she wouldn't let me call her on the phone and heaven
forbid that Shann should call me. But her mother was proud of her
daughter and her achievements and I suspected I could use this to our
advantage. I was a ham radio operator (had been since I was 10, so
only 19 years ago O:-) ) and I talked her into getting her ham
ticket. W4WPV helped and together we taught her morse and theory. She
passed her novice license. Together we built a Heathkit battery
operated rig and we flirted in morse. You can tell we really wanted to
because this entire process took 3 months from idea to license to
radio. I can't tell you how happy I was when her ticket arrived and we
began making the earth move with all that ground wave propagation!
I was the ultimate science geek and had the first scientific calculator
in my high school (some kind of Univac or some such nonsense). I loaned
it to her to do her chemistry homework. She dropped and broke it. She
ran out and bought me the HP-13c (I think). It is still here some
place. I was so happy I asked her shortly thereafter to marry me and
she said yes. Now mostly inactive as N2HPE, she still understands that
amateur radio feeds my technical spirit and for that I am eternally
grateful.
Do you think this would qualify for a good romantic story?
HEE HEE
Bob
N4HY
richard allen wrote:
And for free you can have the classic hp41 running on your windoze
desktop and/or your pocketpc. The folks actually use the roms from
the real hp41 and wrote a processor to emulate the machine. It
therefore works EXACTLY like the original. Great stuff. See them
both at http://www.hp41.org
Having used HP machines since that day in 1972 when my slide rule
went into the desk drawer replaced by the hp-35, I have always
carried an HP machine in my shirt pocket where the pocket protecter
had been before that.
I have found a machine that I like a little better than the hp41
because of it's ability to do math in lots of different number
systems including time. It is only $11.85 and has a version for both
windoze and pocketpc. See it at http://www.calculator.org . Highly
recommended.
Enjoy!
Richard W5SXD
W0UN -- John Brosnahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(11/05/2005 05:19)
At 12:30 AM 11/5/2005, Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
In fact I last bought a calculator in 1987! Time for a new one -
http://www.hp.com/calculators/scientific/33s/ !
Simon Brown
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www.hb9drv.ch www.laax.ch
Simon--
Looks like a fine piece of hardware, but my collection of older
and very expensive HP calculators are all still working quite well.
I have found this on-screen calculator to be very handy. It is on
my desktop computer as well as my notebook. It is shareware
and very inexpensive. You should check out http://www.dreamcalc.com/
It does lots of scientific calculations, plus financial, plus it does
a lot of GRAPHING, as well as having a lot of useful scientific
constants available. Lots of statistical functions, Base-N and
logic functions, and over 630 constants and 80 conversion
functions.
For a list of features try http://www.dreamcalc.com/calculator_features.htm
It works great on complex numbers and does polar plots. I am working
on the author to add Smith Chart calculations. Here are some graphing
screen shots. http://www.dreamcalc.com/graphing_screenshots.htm
I am just a very satisfied customer who got to know the author after
making some suggestions. He put in 8,000 hours on the project.
It not only can use RPN, but also modern algebraic or classic algebraic
entry.
The standard edition is only $19.99. And the professional edition is
$29.99. All features work in the shareware download and there is no
time limit. If you don't pay for the key it will occasionally remind you.
It is probably the best value for shareware that I have ever found.
73 John W0UN
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