HP Forum Archive 03

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Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #1 Posted by bill duncan on 12 July 2000, 3:00 p.m. I know there are better options for pilots these days than HP calculators, but I'm interested in knowing if there is anyone using HP's for flying anyway. I've just submitted two short routines which may be used on almost any RPN HP. One is for calculating Heading and Ground speed, the other is for doing simple interpolations. Both routines may be found in the software library in the HP-29 section, although I've used them with the HP-41 and HP-15C (and even the HP-48). I've also contributed what I called a time manager for the HP-41, but it may be used anywhere that requires you to track multiple times. It can track up to ten independent times. This might also be useful in a cockpit perhaps. I think we've all been saddened by the news some time ago that the HP Users Library was lost to landfill forever. I'd like to encourage anyone who has ever written anything, no matter how small (see my latest routines for example), to dust them off and contribute them here for others to use. Now with the Net, none of these new contributions will ever be lost to landfill. Perhaps we can recapture some of those routines and programs and build a new library. Thanks.

Re: Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #2 Posted by Thibaut on 13 July 2000, 3:47 a.m., in response to message #1 by bill duncan Hi, I've written a routine to calculate ax^2+bx+c=0 Is that of any interest for you ? :-)

Re: Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #3 Posted by Reinhard on 17 July 2000, 2:37 a.m., in response to message #2 by Thibaut Hi, every thing which may be of interest - or not - should be made available for others. Who knows or decides, if it is of interest? The net gives us the chance to get and stay in contact and share any knowledge or information. But I see, that we will get in trouble, if we try to talk on different forums (<--??). Currently it's good, that egroups sends out incomming messages, the museum does not. We should decide, which forum will be used in the future to share everithing. It's a hobby and BYTEGRABBING in the net takes too much time. regards Reinhards

Re: Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #4 Posted by Reinhard Hawel on 18 July 2000, 7:50 p.m., in response to message #3 by Reinhard The forum here is the my main reason for visiting this site twice (or more) a day.

Re: Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #5 Posted by Wayne Brown on 18 July 2000, 10:30 p.m., in response to message #4 by Reinhard Hawel Same here. This is my favorite message board anywhere.

Re: Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #6 Posted by Dave Hicks on 20 July 2000, 3:11 a.m., in response to message #5 by Wayne Brown Thanks Wayne! It's nice to hear that people are enjoying the forum. Dave

Re: Pilots? Anyone? Let's rebuild a library! Message #7 Posted by Reinhard Breuer on 20 July 2000, 8:24 a.m., in response to message #6 by Dave Hicks Hi, sorry to trouble you, I also enjoy the forum and have a look to it more than once a day, but currently it is so difficult to find postings of personal interest, and of course it's not the finest way to let people wait for responses. Please read my posting -> http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/forum.cgi?read=5325 Regards Reinhard

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