Turbo Pascal alternatives

[MarkHaysHarris777]

Greetings, ... well, I was able to find 675 batteries today ... turns out they're the only batts you can buy in Minnesota (without) sales tax, because they are considered 'wearing apparel,' because they are 'hearing aid' batteries; and no, I did not volunteer the fact that they were going to power-up a 35 year old vintage calculator that hasn't had power applied in over thrity years!

So, here it is campers:



I was wrong about its memory (give me a break, its been more than thirty years!) -- 1424 steps, 178 memories... similar to the WP34s, the more memories you use, the less steps you have...



... here we are calculating PI... took a little over 1 full second !



The calculator was given to me in payment of a work debt... well, I did this programming job for a guy who was short of cash at the time; he offered to trade me this calculator for services rendered (it was a good trade at the time, but today I would just hold out for the cash). This vintage calculator (pocket computer) was for the day quite a sophisticated instrument. You can see that the LCD is beginning to go dark; but still functions after 35 years!




Cheers,
marcus