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First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #1 Posted by Les Koller on 1 Aug 2012, 3:26 a.m. Check out this help page for the 50 G...See the calculator? Click Here Edited: 1 Aug 2012, 3:27 a.m.

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #2 Posted by Eddie W. Shore on 1 Aug 2012, 8:34 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Koller Quote: Check out this help page for the 50 G...See the calculator? Click Here LOL The page editor was asleep that day.

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #3 Posted by Mark Scheuern on 1 Aug 2012, 9:12 a.m., in response to message #2 by Eddie W. Shore Or decided to go with a cheap stock photo. "Hey, it's a calculator. Who's going to know?"

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #4 Posted by Dave Britten on 1 Aug 2012, 9:49 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Koller The first sign of something being wrong is that the keyboard feels vastly better.

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #5 Posted by Jim Yohe on 1 Aug 2012, 10:57 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Koller So funny!

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #6 Posted by Steve Leibson on 1 Aug 2012, 11:19 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Koller Hey, I have one of those TI 4-bangers at work. Great for simple math. I like the keys, actually, even if they don't click. I bought it to complement my TI 508 4-banger at home. Much older. Big, easy-to-see keys, no programming. Nope, it's not a 50G. Either one.

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #7 Posted by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil) on 1 Aug 2012, 11:27 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Koller They should change the name of the page for e-WTH??? ;) Cheers.

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #8 Posted by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) on 1 Aug 2012, 1:32 p.m., in response to message #7 by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil) Many of the e-how "instructions" remind me of a book that a friend of mine had in the 70s, a spoof of the do-it-yourself mania. It had a chapter entitled "How to add second story to your house." The first instruction: remove roof and set aside!

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #9 Posted by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil) on 1 Aug 2012, 4:35 p.m., in response to message #8 by Dave Shaffer (Arizona) Yes, I can see that! From the page: Quote: How to Make & Store Equations in the HP 50G 1 - Turn on your HP 50G and launch the Equation Writer.(...) 2 - Write the equation you want to store on your HP 50G in the Equation Writer. (Ahn?!?!? How???) 3 - Press the "STO" button on the 50G. 4 - (...) And what do I do with the roof? Cheers. Luiz (Brazil) Edited: 1 Aug 2012, 4:36 p.m.

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #10 Posted by Les Koller on 1 Aug 2012, 5:29 p.m., in response to message #9 by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil) Luiz, I didn't even get past the picture, I quit reading. Are those the instructions it gives, for real? OMG what a bunch of muggles!

Re: First Step: BE SURE you have an HP 50G! Message #11 Posted by Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil) on 1 Aug 2012, 8:45 p.m., in response to message #10 by Les Koller Welllll.... there's a bit more text, I just copied and pasted their first words for each step. The complements are reinforcements, like locating the labels in the keyboard (?!?!?!), using tags - 2: 3: - to define the port where to store the equation (without explaining what is a port) and to not to forget to enter the equation name... Please, read, you'll enjoy it... the bitter way. Cheers. Luiz (Brazil) Edited: 1 Aug 2012, 8:46 p.m.

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