It's the model that brought
integration and
root finding to pocket calculators for the first time.
Time to remember it. How better than to run it through its paces on your iPhone?
CuVee Software proudly announces
RPN-34 CE, a full simulation of the HP-34C.
As with other CuVee products, the simulator works just like the original, but also offers additional features:
- 999 program steps (instead of 210, and even that only by sacrificing all register memory)
- 80 additional registers
- 31 additional instructions
- Live register view with single-stepping
- View, save, annotate, share programs
- Dramatically higher speed
- Preloaded with programs from HP's Applications books
- ... and much more
Check it out at
cuveesoft.ch/rpn34
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Happy Anniversary, indeed !
I got an HP-34C early (some weeks before it was released back in 1979), courtesy of HP, in order to create an HP Solutions book for it, namely Advanced Math, to be offered to people who would buy the machine.
I co-wrote it with my friend FdR in time for the release, and it was really great fun to create and document the 20 quality programs included in the book (we each wrote 10), so much so that I came to love the HP-34C.
Its hardware wasn't really classic HP quality, that was immediately noticeable having owned an HP-25 and an HP-67, but the looks were fine and the instruction set and programming capabilities were awesome for the price, most especially the Solve an Integrate functionality, you could really write truly useful, complex programs on it.
So, again, Happy 40th Anniversary HP-34C ! ... And thanks for all the fun !
V.
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(01-09-2019 10:36 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote: [ -> ] (01-09-2019 10:06 PM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote: [ -> ]Check it out at cuveesoft.ch/rpn34
Quote:Version History RPN-34 CE
1.0 – January 18, 2019
First public version.
The future is now.
Argh – should have remembered that placeholder date... ;-(
Thanks for pointing it out.
Some folks out here are still hoping for Android versions....someday. Just sayin...
(01-10-2019 04:33 AM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]Some folks out here are still hoping for Android versions....someday. Just sayin...
How could you ?
You'll have to wait because Android only has a Market share of 80% in the Smartphone market ...
(01-09-2019 10:40 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote: [ -> ].
I got an HP-34C early (some weeks before it was released back in 1979), courtesy of HP, in order to create an HP Solutions book for it, namely Advanced Math, to be offered to people who would buy the machine.
I co-wrote it with my friend FdR in time for the release, and it was really great fun to create and document the 20 quality programs included in the book (we each wrote 10), so much so that I came to love the HP-34C.
Thank you for the comment. Very interesting. Any idea if the
Solutions Book is available anywhere online? Doesn't seem to be part of the HP Museum's DVD set I own.
(01-10-2019 04:33 AM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]Some folks out here are still hoping for Android versions....someday. Just sayin...
There's only so much a single person can accomplish in a life-time... ;-(
(01-10-2019 10:09 AM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote: [ -> ]There's only so much a single person can accomplish in a life-time... ;-(
I know, and you've accomplished a lot! Just reminding you that a
much larger audience of folks are still eager to enjoy some of those accomplishments too. But I get it, Apples and Oranges...
(01-10-2019 02:23 PM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ] (01-10-2019 10:09 AM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote: [ -> ]There's only so much a single person can accomplish in a life-time... ;-(
I know, and you've accomplished a lot! Just reminding you that a much larger audience of folks are still eager to enjoy some of those accomplishments too. But I get it, Apples and Oranges...
I knew about Clockwork Oranges, but Android Oranges?!?
;-)
(01-09-2019 10:06 PM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote: [ -> ]It's the model that brought integration and root finding to pocket calculators for the first time.
Time to remember it. How better than to run it through its paces on your iPhone?
By using the real thing, of course. ;-)
The 34C was my very first HP calculator.
Yes, Solve and Integrate were powerful new functions on the 34C. They have been thoroughly discussed, and the manual uses many pages for explaining their use, interpreting the results and more.
Which leads to the question how all this is done by RPN34. Especially the 34C integration routine is quite sophisticated, and I wonder if this is also true for the emulator. As far as I know the algorithm has never been published, so the details are unknown. So: what are the methods that are implemented in RPN34? I assume they are not identical to the original algorithms, so the results can differ.
Dieter
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Hi
Bob,
Willy and
John:
(01-10-2019 04:33 AM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]Some folks out here are still hoping for Android versions....someday. Just sayin...
I'm one of them. In particular I'd love (and would pay good money for) an
Android version of J-F Garnier's magnificent
Emu71 but, considering I've had no success whatsoever in getting him to release a 64-bit Windows version, I have no high expectations.
(01-10-2019 10:05 AM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote: [ -> ]Thank you for the comment. Very interesting. Any idea if the Solutions Book is available anywhere online? Doesn't seem to be part of the HP Museum's DVD set I own.
You're welcome and thanks for your interest. And no, this
HP-34C Solution Book "Advanced Math" is not included in the MoHP DVD set nor anywhere else AFAIK.
I was given two complimentary copies after it got printed and sent one of them to the Australian
PPC Melbourne Chapter (which published tons of my contributions back then) and still keep the other to this day. I'm intent of making the contents available for free (of course!) but I recently lost my system and have no scanning capabilities at the moment.
Once Christmas is over I intend to do something about it ASAP. All else failing, I'll post the programs to the
General Library one by one but this means considerable work and thus requires a lot of free time so it may take a while.
(01-10-2019 10:17 AM)John Cadick Wrote: [ -> ]+1
Thanks for your interest. John.
Regards.
V.
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I have these original Spice/Spike manuals/qrg/booklets in my collection:
Code:
Product Released Model Title
------------- -------- -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Code:
5955-3015-B Jul 1978 Solving Problems with Your Hewlett-Packard Calculator
5955-5267-B Aug 1980 Solving Problems with Your Hewlett-Packard Calculator
5955-3016 Feb 1978 Your HP Financial Calculator: An Introduction to Financial Concepts and Problem Solving
5955-5296 Nov 1980 Your HP Financial Calculator: An Introduction to Financial Concepts and Problem Solving
Code:
00031-90001-B Jul 1978 HP-31E Owner's Handbook
Code:
00032-90001-B Jul 1978 HP-32E Owner's Handbook
Code:
00033-90001-B Jul 1978 HP-33E Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide
00033-90039 Apr 1979 HP-33E/33C Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide
00033-90013 Mar 1978 HP-33E Quick Reference Card
00033-90053 Sep 1971 HP-33E/33C Quick Reference Card
00033-90024 Feb 1978 HP-33E Applications
00033-90067 May 1979 HP-33E/33C Applications
00033-90030 Nov 1979 HP-33E/33C Mathematics Applications
00033-90031 Feb 1978 HP-33E Statistics Applications
00033-90032 Apr 1978 HP-33E Student Engineering Applications
00033-90033 Mar 1978 HP-33E Surveying Applications
Code:
00034-90001-B Apr 1980 HP-34C Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide
00034-90041 Jun 1979 HP-34C Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide Addendum
00034-90012 May 1979 HP-34C Quick Reference Card
00034-90022 May 1979 HP-34C Applications
00034-90022-B Oct 1980 HP-34C Applications
00034-90032 Sep 1979 HP-34C Mathematics Applications
00034-90033 Sep 1978 HP-34C Statistics Applications
00034-90034 Aug 1978 HP-34C Surveying Applications
00034-90034-B Jun 1981 HP-34C Surveying Applications
00034-90035 Aug 1978 HP-34C Student Engineering Applications
Code:
00037-90001-C Feb 1978 HP-37E Owner's Handbook
Code:
00038-90001 Mar 1978 HP-38E Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide
00038-90038-B Aug 1980 HP-38E/38C Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide
00038-90013 Mar 1978 HP-38E Quick Reference Card
00038-90056 Apr 1979 HP-38E/38C Quick Reference Card
00038-90024-C Sep 1979 HP-37E/38E/38C Real Estate Applications
00038-90025-D Sep 1979 HP-37E/38E/38C Lending, Saving and Leasing Applications
00038-90026-C Nov 1979 HP-37E/38E/38C Investment Analysis and Statistics Applications for Business Professionals and Students
00038-90049 May 1979 HP-37E/38E/38C Marketing and Forecasting Applications
00038-90051 Jul 1979 HP-37E/38E/38C Real Estate II Applications
00038-90052 Jul 1979 HP-38E/38C Personal Finance Applications
If you are interested, I could do a 200 DPI color scan of them and made them available in the articles forum.
Sylvain
Just picked up the app and I am quite pleased with its enhanced programmability, functionality as well as having all app packs included. Excellent job, Willy!
(01-09-2019 10:40 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote: [ -> ].
Happy Anniversary, indeed !
I got an HP-34C early (some weeks before it was released back in 1979), courtesy of HP, in order to create an HP Solutions book for it, namely Advanced Math, to be offered to people who would buy the machine.
So, again, Happy 40th Anniversary HP-34C ! ... And thanks for all the fun !
V.
.
In the PPC Journal V6N5P18 (August 1979) in the article "HP-34C - A Brief Review", the initial paragraph starts out with the statement "On August 15, 1979 Hewlett-Packard announced a new scientific programmable calculator called the HP-34C." Based on this, we've still got a few months to go for that anniversary. Just sayin'.....
Thanks,
Jake
(01-11-2019 04:39 AM)Jake Schwartz Wrote: [ -> ] (01-09-2019 10:40 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote: [ -> ].
Happy Anniversary, indeed !
I got an HP-34C early (some weeks before it was released back in 1979), courtesy of HP, in order to create an HP Solutions book for it, namely Advanced Math, to be offered to people who would buy the machine.
So, again, Happy 40th Anniversary HP-34C ! ... And thanks for all the fun !
V.
.
In the PPC Journal V6N5P18 (August 1979) in the article "HP-34C - A Brief Review", the initial paragraph starts out with the statement "On August 15, 1979 Hewlett-Packard announced a new scientific programmable calculator called the HP-34C." Based on this, we've still got a few months to go for that anniversary. Just sayin'.....
Thanks,
Jake
And we have another event - much more important, at least to me - on schedule just before this... ;-)
(01-10-2019 10:06 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote: [ -> ](...)
(01-10-2019 10:05 AM)Willy R. Kunz Wrote: [ -> ]Thank you for the comment. Very interesting. Any idea if the Solutions Book is available anywhere online? Doesn't seem to be part of the HP Museum's DVD set I own.
You're welcome and thanks for your interest. And no, this HP-34C Solution Book "Advanced Math" is not included in the MoHP DVD set nor anywhere else AFAIK.
I was given two complimentary copies after it got printed and sent one of them to the Australian PPC Melbourne Chapter (which published tons of my contributions back then) and still keep the other to this day. I'm intent of making the contents available for free (of course!) but I recently lost my system and have no scanning capabilities at the moment.
Once Christmas is over I intend to do something about it ASAP. All else failing, I'll post the programs to the General Library one by one but this means considerable work and thus requires a lot of free time so it may take a while.
Regards.
V.
.
Really looking forward to it. Thanks, Valentin.
(01-10-2019 09:44 PM)Dieter Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, Solve and Integrate were powerful new functions on the 34C. They have been thoroughly discussed, and the manual uses many pages for explaining their use, interpreting the results and more.
Which leads to the question how all this is done by RPN34. Especially the 34C integration routine is quite sophisticated, and I wonder if this is also true for the emulator. As far as I know the algorithm has never been published, so the details are unknown. So: what are the methods that are implemented in RPN34? I assume they are not identical to the original algorithms, so the results can differ.
Dieter
According to the HP Journal Aug 1980, they used "a Romberg method", adding that "several refinements were found necessary". They go into some detail about how they produced nonuniformly spaced nodes in order to suppress resonance or aliasing. Finally, they (proudly) compare their solution with other integrators. Fascinating reading.
RPN-34 CE relies on Gauss-Legendre quadrature formulas of high-orders, along with high-precision abscissas and weights stored in tables. The display format does not affect the precision, so the uncertainty value the HP-34 returns in the Y register doesn't apply to RPN-34.
(01-11-2019 01:14 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote: [ -> ]I have these original Spice/Spike manuals/qrg/booklets in my collection:
Code:
Product Released Model Title
------------- -------- -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00034-90034-B Jun 1981 HP-34C Surveying Applications
00034-90035 Aug 1978 HP-34C Student Engineering Applications
If you are interested, I could do a 200 DPI color scan of them and made them available in the articles forum.
Sylvain
Hi Sylvain,
thank you so much for the offer. I'd love to include the programs in the booklets above in an update of RPN-34 CE. You may also send the scans directly to my contact address on cuveesoft.ch, if you wish.