hpmuseum is very expensive !!

[Csaba Tizedes]

(01-03-2018 07:52 PM)larthurl Wrote:  

(12-30-2017 11:38 PM)Csaba Tizedes Wrote:  Advanced. What does it mean advanced? It depends only on the application. You can calculate the pressure drop of your sprinkler system with it and you can select a proper pump, but if you calculate with it a pneumatic conveying system from ESP to silo station that is more 'advanced'? The two program is same - but your sprinkler system approx. 1'000.- USD and the pneumatic conveying system approx. 5'000'000.- USD

It has more program steps than HP12C - which is more advanced? It has alphanumeric program editor, 6 regression models, base arithmetics, complex number support - is it more advanced?

Some people cannot solve simple engineering problems with Maple or Mathematica, some engineers builds power plants with a pocket calculator - which is 'advanced'?

Csaba

Interesting point, Csaba. I'm sure this topic has been covered before but if you have a link to it I'd be interested.

Kind of like the debate (which I think had been settled for several decades) regarding what is a calculator and what is a computer.

.....Art

Yes, this,, will never ended. Like Pepsi vs. Coca Cola, MacOS vs. Windows, Alien vs. Star Wars, Big Mac vs. Whopper, HP vs. TI or CASIO maybe SHARP, engineering knowledge with slide rule or pocket calculator vs. PC

Csaba