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Originally Posted by dannyw001
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I may be showing my age, but I grew up on HP's RPN calculators. It is difficult for me to now use a regular algebraic calculator.
I'm curious what RPN calculators others are using and what they think of them. I have looked at Lygea's and Creative Creek's HP look-alike calculators. They look very good and are very tempting for someone like me who can have that old HP look.
However, I am tempted by the newer calculators with RPN mode which bundle other capabilties, such as unit converters (a program type which spoiled me on my old Palm Vx). I have installed the 1-Calc program which comes on the Dell CD with the X51v. It works fine, but occasionally causes portions of the screen to show a "double image". And, something which may only bother me, it doesn't have a true "enter" key, but uses the "=" key for "enter". Minor, I know, but irksome.
Anyone out there who has discovered that perfect RPN?
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Danny,
I, too, grew up using HP calculators (at GA Tech) back in the late 70's. I have the CreativeCreek Math-U-Pro calculator. It is just plain excellent. If you ever got used to using an HP-11C, 32S or any of those you will be very pleased with this one. In my use of Calc98 I noticed the stack behaviour wasn't quite the same as a "real" HP but Math-U-Pro works exactly right. Spend the 25 bucks on it and you'll be very pleased with it.
I might just put my HP calculators up on eBay or something, I don't use them anymore.
-CB :approve: