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Baby’s First Calculator! - DrewNicholson - 05-14-2022 05:50 PM
The HP-12C Platinum from ebay
Teach your baby to appreciate quality!
More interesting than your old smartphone!
Enjoy these wonderful benefits:
Color Scheme : colorful - perfect
Battery Door : too big to swallow and hard to remove
- leave battery out until child learns to use buttons and stops putting *everything* in mouth
Buttons : clicky and lots of them
Toxic: not, perfect for tasting
Chewable : not, excellent for teething
Weight : light for little arms
Size : just right for small hands
Age Range : 9 months until ready to learn advanced conditionals and looping
Sad if she destroys it : not really
Warning : may need to occasionally return to RPN mode to avoid algebraic neurological trauma
Happy Saturday!
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - rprosperi - 05-14-2022 06:11 PM
(05-14-2022 05:50 PM)DrewNicholson Wrote: Chewable : not, excellent for teething
While Babies and Beagles are not the same, I had an HP-42S that would disagree with this claim, at least to some extent. That said, even though very clearly a victim of excessive chewing, it still worked fine. This became an HHC prize table gift several years ago, I wonder if it's still going strong??
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - DrewNicholson - 05-14-2022 06:22 PM
(05-14-2022 06:11 PM)rprosperi Wrote: While Babies and Beagles are not the same, I had an HP-42S that would disagree with this claim, at least to some extent. That said, even though very clearly a victim of excessive chewing, it still worked fine. This became an HHC prize table gift several years ago, I wonder if it's still going strong??
I had a beagle once. I didn't know anything could survive a beagle. They are persistent.
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - toml_12953 - 05-14-2022 10:58 PM
I had that same look on my face when I got my first RPN calculator (HP-45) I know exactly how she feels!
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - Jlouis - 05-15-2022 04:54 AM
What a nice picture! Amazing! God bless this child.
Thanks for put a smile in my face!
Cheers
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - Felix Gross - 05-15-2022 06:55 AM
Bob's dog operated HP 42S happily lives in a semi-retired state, fully functional though. Thanks Bob for donating this machine.
These days I keep the DM 42 in the desktop drawer for rather frequent (though rather primitive) use.
Felix
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - Thomas Klemm - 05-15-2022 08:41 AM
HELLO CUTIE
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - DrewNicholson - 05-19-2022 02:20 PM
Aloha,
I have now learned 2 things:
1) don't bother with too much of a write up of attempted humor when there is a cute baby picture
2) I have apparently taught my child that when she finds her way into my office she heads directly for the only working woodstock I have:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkfXbjQEO0N2hNV6J89bi7m4iuagYg?e=0ENmIi
Mahalo
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - Harald - 05-20-2022 07:38 AM
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My Dad showning my Daughter the HP35. She now is 6 years old and has somewhat lost interest. I am sure she will regain interest when she realises that calculators are not only toys, but also make life easier
Unfortunately schools insist on a particular model of calculator, so an HP will be a problem.
By the way, this is how I ended up with old HP calculators: When I was in school I had a 32S, but I wasn't allowed to use it for exams. I needed a non programmable calculator for that. And that is who I got my dads HP45.
RE: Baby’s First Calculator! - DrewNicholson - 05-20-2022 03:28 PM
And now I know she has developed object permanence.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkfXbjQEO0N2hNV-eDFswbX9VQpkrw
Her KIM-1 simulator arrives today …
She has regular baby toys as well :-)