OOHHH YEAHHHHH HP-34C BETTER THAN S*X Message #4 Posted by Norm on 23 Mar 2003, 6:50 a.m., in response to message #3 by Norm
OK this baby is up and running. THIS IS MY FIRST TIME
TO GET A CLASSIC BACK INTO MY HANDS AFTER 12 STINKIN'
MISERABLE ROTTEN YEARS OF HAVING DUMPED MY 34C for a 32S.
Early version with unsoldered chips inside is unreliable?
I dunno, thats what it is, and its working OK.
I like the extra 1.5 ounces of weight.
LED's, RED LED's YEAHHHH. And a SWITCH.
YEAH, a REAL LIVE POWER SWITCH.
*CLICK*. Not like a 32S where they were too stinkin'
cheap to give you a power switch.
What is wrong with that Carly creature, parading
around about "cost reduction". I can see her now
in the boardroom, with a 50 foot long Mahogany
table and a $3000 "power suit" that she's wearing,
leather chairs all around, parading about her "cost reduction" and the need to boost profits? That
we don't even deserve a 5 cent power switch?
The 32S was already cost-reduced to the point of a cereal-box-toy, but they discontinue it like they can't make any money. Yeah right, right on Carly.
NO STINKIN SOFT-MENU'S. You want to F, ENG, 4 ?
JUST DO IT. YOu don't have to hit 2nd, DISP
and then continue with a soft menu, like 32S.
I put this baby into Engineering Display mode,
does it say something bleccchy like
"14.142E0" ????
NO! AN HP-34C SAYS
14.142 00
YEAHHHHHHHHHH.
In nice clear crisp RED LED digits.
OHHH ITS GETS BETTER AND BETTER. I MAKE A LITTLE
PROGRAM. IT WORKS, IT WORKS !!
I got some nice "LABEL" buttons right up top,
label a program "A" or "B" and run it easily just
by pushing "A" or "B".
Think you could do that with a 32S ?????? HA HA HA HA HA HA no way charlie.
I GOT A REAL LIVE SWITCH TO GO BETWEEN "PRGM"
AND "RUN" bet that Carly is doing a speech right now
with her stinkin' powerpoint and excel spreadsheet,
to prove that slide switches are evil.
AND YOU RUN THE PROGRAM AND ALL THEM LED'S START
A BLINKIN' KeR blIPPTY blippITY BLIP BLIP.
KeR blIPPTY blippITY BLIP BLIP.
KeR blIPPTY blippITY BLIP BLIP.
KeR blIPPTY blippITY BLIP BLIP.
U gotta love that one kilohertz CPU speed. OOOO LAAA LAAAA. (OK I admit, if they speed that up with a
new CMOS chip, I'll accept that. But no other "improvements" from those who no longer bring good things to life.
THIS THING IS GEORGEOUS. Couldn't a done it w/o
the HP Museum. In fact the seller contacted me
because I tried posting a classified ad here. They bumped
into it off a google internet search. Not everybody
wants to setup to sell on eBay. Sometimes they want
to dump it quickly w/o creating an auction page.
Thanks dgh.
Every key push is like total ecstacy. Little keys
with little tiny hinges on them, where HP-32S has just
got a whole bunch stuck in there all blow-molded at
once. You get that flim-flammy feel on all those uninspired brown-plastic cereal box calculators because the keys aren't even free floating.
THIS THING IS AWESOME. A month ago, I said HP should
start making these HP-34C 's again...........
Now that I have had the good luck to acquire a nice
sample..........
I WAS RIGHT !!!!
HUBBA HUBBA OOOO WEEEE BAAABEEEEEEEEE. HP-34C .
If I saw a kid trying to learn trigonometry and
calculus, I'd get him one of these. AWESOME.
And thanks to more modern high-power batteries,
the RED LED display is not something to fear.....
it's something to be ENJOYED .......
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