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HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #1 Posted by Nenad (Croatia) on 21 Aug 2007, 7:22 a.m.

Sergeant-Major, Sir, the requested report is on your desk, Sir.

If I may speek freely, I think it deserves emulation on something else (e.g. 50g) after the ROM is available.

      
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #2 Posted by HrastProgrammer on 21 Aug 2007, 9:25 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Nenad (Croatia)

OK, soldier. Good work. I will read your report when I'll be back because I am outside of Croatia at the moment ...

            
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #3 Posted by Dallas Osborne on 21 Aug 2007, 11:35 a.m.,
in response to message #2 by HrastProgrammer

Young user shouts,

" Recognizing that I volunteered as an RPN Zealot, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen technique, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit-de-corps of my RPN/RPL sect.

Professing the fact that an RPN Zealot is a more elite user who arrives at the cutting edge of solutions by keystroke, program, or sheer cheek, I accept the fact that as an RPN Zealot my sect expects me to think further, faster and solve harder than any measly algebraic user.

Never shall I fail my comrades. I will always keep myself mentally alert, physically strong, and morally straight and I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be, one hundred percent and then some.

Readily will I show the world that I am a specially gifted user who wields a well-engineered tool. My courtesy to superior users, efficiency of memory, and care of equipment shall set the example for others to follow.

Perspicuously will I meet the tribulations of my profession. I shall defeat them with speed of solution for I am better trained and will solve with all my might. Surrender is not a an RPN Zealot word. I will never leave a fallen unit to fall into the hands of the internet price hikers and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my sect.

Loyally will I display the intestinal fortitude required to solve on to the RPN Zealot objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor.

Reversers leads the way!"

Sergeant-Major hardly glances up, "Excellent; dimissed."

Edited: 21 Aug 2007, 11:53 a.m. after one or more responses were posted

                  
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #4 Posted by Vincze on 21 Aug 2007, 11:47 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by Dallas Osborne

I confused. What the heck this all about?

                        
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #5 Posted by Dallas Osborne on 21 Aug 2007, 11:51 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Vincze

It is only satire...

;)

                              
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #6 Posted by Vincze on 21 Aug 2007, 12:40 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by Dallas Osborne

I still confused. Is there a new emulator?

                                    
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #7 Posted by Dallas Osborne on 21 Aug 2007, 12:46 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Vincze

Sadly, no; just hopes and rantings to pass the time

                                          
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #8 Posted by Trent Moseley on 21 Aug 2007, 2:03 p.m.,
in response to message #7 by Dallas Osborne

The above exchanges are priceless. Only on this Forum. Reading them made my day!

tm

                                                
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #9 Posted by Chan Tran on 21 Aug 2007, 3:04 p.m.,
in response to message #8 by Trent Moseley

Why 35s emulator? I thought each of us should get one of the real thing.

                                                      
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #10 Posted by Vincze on 21 Aug 2007, 4:05 p.m.,
in response to message #9 by Chan Tran

Quote:
I thought each of us should get one of the real thing.
Why just one? Buy two to ten of them. Maybe we drive up demand for them and HP start making more calculators.
                                          
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #11 Posted by Howard Owen on 21 Aug 2007, 5:48 p.m.,
in response to message #7 by Dallas Osborne

Quote:
Sadly, no [new emulator]; just hopes and rantings to pass the time

On the other hand, what was that military dispatch all about, hey?

Hrast being the HP rom-based calculator emulator wizard that he is, might that have concerned a ROM dump of a certain beast we are all coming to know?

Hope springs eternal.

Regards,
Howard

                                                
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #12 Posted by Dallas Osborne on 21 Aug 2007, 6:02 p.m.,
in response to message #11 by Howard Owen

I was following the odd humor that initiated this thread as my coffee brewed; strange and unintelligible wit usually only happens prior to caffeination.

                                                      
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #13 Posted by Howard Owen on 21 Aug 2007, 8:57 p.m.,
in response to message #12 by Dallas Osborne

Well, that's true, but too much caffeine will make one babble nonsense as well. 8)

Regards,
Howard

                                                
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #14 Posted by HrastProgrammer on 22 Aug 2007, 1:15 a.m.,
in response to message #11 by Howard Owen

Just to make the first two posts clear:

Nenad and I were just joking. He made a post some time ago about being the first one to have a HP-35S here and I said that I am expecting a report on my desk in a few days. So, the report is now on my desk :-)

We were talking about a possibility to develop an HP-35S emulator for HP-50G and (as usual) I said that we only need to extract the ROM, which isn't a simple task at all. This is the meaning of "I think it deserves emulation on something else (e.g. 50g) after the ROM is available" ... Don't take it too serious.

To Howard: Did you receive my last mail (with some attachments) few weeks ago?

Edited: 22 Aug 2007, 1:40 a.m. after one or more responses were posted

                                                      
Re: HP35s - The Buggy Little Beast (Report to Hrast)
Message #15 Posted by Howard Owen on 22 Aug 2007, 1:21 a.m.,
in response to message #14 by HrastProgrammer

Quote:
To Howard: Did you receive my last mail (with some attachments) few weeks ago?

Yes, I did Hrast. I intended to reply after I got a chance to try the new 71X out. But then I got very busy and didn't get around to it. Thanks for the update!

Regards,
Howard

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