HP Forum Archive 13

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It was 20 years ago today... Message #1 Posted by Patrick on 16 May 2003, 2:54 a.m. With all due respect to Sargeant Pepper... In May of 1983, HP published articles introducing and describing the HP-15C and HP-16C, two of my current favourites. Despite HP's current inert state with respect to quality RPN engineering calculators, I'd still like to say Thank-You, HP, for the wonderful legacy you have created. These old but still functional machines have provided this engineer with a lot of joy over the years.

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #2 Posted by Valentin Albillo on 16 May 2003, 3:12 a.m., in response to message #1 by Patrick If you like the HP-15C as much as I do, I suggest you don't miss my commemorative 6-page article "Long Live the HP-15C !", to be published in the next issue of HPCC Datafile (V22N3). You'll love it ! :-)

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #3 Posted by Jordi Hidalgo on 16 May 2003, 12:30 p.m., in response to message #2 by Valentin Albillo Valentin Albillo wrote: > You'll love it ! :-) I look forward to reading it - I certainly enjoyed your articles on the HP-11C and 12C in V20N5&6 and V21N1&2 ... and also your "article" on the 10C in V20N6... ;-) Regards, Jordi Hidalgo HPCC #1046

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #4 Posted by Valentin Albillo on 16 May 2003, 10:09 p.m., in response to message #3 by Jordi Hidalgo Bona tarda, Jordi: Thanks for your kind comments, I must say that I've also enjoyed a lot all of your very interesting articles and contributions to Datafile, and I'm eager to get every issue to read more of them. I sincerely hope you'll like the HP-15C article, and would recommend you get one to try the accompanying program, it's quite satisfaying to see it in action, specially in such tiny machine as the HP-15C. :-) Best regards and adeu.

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #5 Posted by J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente on 16 May 2003, 12:44 p.m., in response to message #2 by Valentin Albillo Hi! Sure, 6 pages article, I'll love it! Time for hp15c platinum? Or perhaps, full Voyager Platinum line :-) As far as I remember, on 19th May 1999 (or was it the 21st May?), hp49 was presented .. Looks like May is a good month for new devices... Best regards, J.Manrique. 1077 HPCC Member

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #6 Posted by Valentin Albillo on 16 May 2003, 10:19 p.m., in response to message #5 by J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente "Time for hp15c platinum? Or perhaps, full Voyager Platinum line :-)" I think that would be a really good idea *if and only if* the keyboard would be as reliable as in the original Voyagers. Else, with the extremely many keycodes and key combinations available in the HP-15C (more than 400), it would be a nightmare to try and discover just what key didn't register properly at what step. Just think of RCL A, RCL+A, RCL DIM A, RCL MATRIX A, RCL (i), RCL + (i), RCL DIM (i), RCL 9, RCL .9, etc. to see what I mean ... :-) Thanks for your interest and best regards.

HPCC Message #7 Posted by Patrick on 16 May 2003, 5:09 p.m., in response to message #2 by Valentin Albillo I am an ex-PPC member (#4820) but don't know much about HPCC. I'd love to read the articles you mention but I suspect this requires membership/annual dues?

Re: HPCC Message #8 Posted by Valentin Albillo on 16 May 2003, 10:02 p.m., in response to message #7 by Patrick Patrick wrote: "I'd love to read the articles you mention but I suspect this requires membership/annual dues?" I'm afraid you're right. HPCC is an HP-fan club, more or less in the same spirit as old PPC and CHHU, trying to survive in the not-so-favorable-for-HP-calcs present, though somewhat scaled down, of course. If you want additional info, please visit http://www.hpcc.org My only relation to HPCC is trying to help it survive: I contribute funds by being a member, and I contribute materials by writing articles/programs for publication, but I have no responsibilities or 'charge', nor do I have a say as to publication or pricing policies. Ideally, I would prefer that HPCC would not charge anything for membership, but I understand this is simply unrealistic, if only to help compensate the cost of publishing Datafile six times a year. Anyway, I intend to make available online in a near future all of my articles so that anyone interested will be able to download them for free. I'll post a message to the list announcing it when ready. Thanks for your interest and best regards.

Re: HPCC Message #9 Posted by Frank Wales on 17 May 2003, 9:06 a.m., in response to message #7 by Patrick Valentin is correct about needing membership of HPCC to get current Datafile issues. If you want to read articles from 1982-2002, Jake Schwartz has scanned the first 20 years of Datafile onto CD-ROM. http://www.waterw.com/~jakes/ppccdrom.htm A full table of contents for all issues is on the HPCC web site: http://hpcc.org/datafile.html

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #10 Posted by Trent Moseley on 16 May 2003, 11:16 p.m., in response to message #1 by Patrick I am confused about the intro of the 15-C in May of 1983. I bought mine in December of 1982; serial no. 2242A... tm

Re: It was 20 years ago today... Message #11 Posted by Patrick on 17 May 2003, 12:57 a.m., in response to message #10 by Trent Moseley Yes, you are right that the HP-15C came out in 1982. I was referring only to the articles in the HP Journal which delved into the innards of the machine: "Scientific Calculator Extends Range of Built-In Functions". This, and many other wonderful memories, are available on the museum's DVD/CD set.

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