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HP calculator in the comic strips?
Message #1 Posted by Bruce Bergman on 27 Aug 2007, 1:52 p.m.

Did anyone read "FoxTrot" in Sunday's comic section? I love that strip; the kids are so...familiar. ;-)

Anyhow, in the strip, Jason introduces his new calculator. One with two other keys and an "ENTER" key. Sound familiar?

Check it out. At least for today, it's located here: http://www.foxtrot.com/

:-)

thanks, bruce

      
Re: HP calculator in the comic strips?
Message #2 Posted by Vincze on 27 Aug 2007, 2:06 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Bruce Bergman

Ha Ha, boy in hat sound like my son saying Dad "I thought you said calculators are for wimps."

      
Re: HP calculator in the comic strips?
Message #3 Posted by Ren on 27 Aug 2007, 2:22 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Bruce Bergman

Thanks for the link!

I think the cartoonist (Bill Amend) probably violated his NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with HP by releasing this information on the HP-16Cs before HP's official announcement. Perhaps he isn't going into "semi-retirement", maybe HP has muzzled him!

Ren

dona nobis pacem

      
Re: HP calculator in the comic strips?
Message #4 Posted by Don Shepherd on 27 Aug 2007, 2:46 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Bruce Bergman

And I'll bet they don't have to put a *b* after the binary zeroes and ones to let the calc know it is binary!!

      
Re: HP calculator in the comic strips?
Message #5 Posted by Walter B on 27 Aug 2007, 4:10 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Bruce Bergman

Thanks, Bruce! The calc even features a WIDE enter :) And there is another German word merging into American: "über", just without the 2 dots because American typist don't have them, became part of "uber-cool" ;)

      
Re: HP calculator in the comic strips?
Message #6 Posted by Karl Schneider on 28 Aug 2007, 4:22 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Bruce Bergman

Thanks for providing the link, Bruce. I read the Sunday strip and thought about posting a link, but didn't look it up.

Presumably, Peter will press the two number keys on the three-button binary calc to display "10", not "01"...

Bill Amend has regularly featured modest math and calculation tasks in his Sunday "Fox Trot" comic strips -- none that would challenge us, but are probably unfamiliar to most Americans, alas.

-- KS

Edited: 28 Aug 2007, 4:54 a.m.

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