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Definition of "Fully Blown"
01-12-2015, 02:41 AM
Post: #21
RE: Definition of "Fully Blown"
I never heard "fully-blown", but I've heard "full-blown" about many things other than HP calculators. For HP-41 and -71B, the phrase I usually heard was "fully loaded".
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01-12-2015, 03:51 AM
Post: #22
RE: Definition of "Fully Blown"
I worked in the explosives field for about 15 years, and the term
"fully blown", means a job well done, or a catastrophic result. We did 41C's in the 80's and we called them "hotted up". All sounds too familiar to the hot rod fraternity. :-)

Ray
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01-12-2015, 04:02 AM (This post was last modified: 01-12-2015 04:04 AM by Mark Hardman.)
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RE: Definition of "Fully Blown"
(01-12-2015 03:51 AM)vk6ti Wrote:  I worked in the explosives field for about 15 years, and the term
"fully blown", means a job well done, or a catastrophic result. We did 41C's in the 80's and we called them "hotted up". All sounds too familiar to the hot rod fraternity. :-)

Ray

"A job well done" or "a catastrophic result"?

I get it. When speaking of explosive ordinance, failure to produce a catastrophic result would be considered a failure (a job not well done).

I would like to think of my HP-41CLs as being "souped up".

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01-12-2015, 07:14 PM
Post: #24
RE: Definition of "Fully Blown"
Thomas Klemm: Very interesting post. I've not seen that before.
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01-12-2015, 09:18 PM
Post: #25
RE: Definition of "Fully Blown"
(01-12-2015 07:14 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote:  Very interesting post. I've not seen that before.

You might like these old posts then:
old photo with hp logo or name
Hi definition images of the HP-19C decimal dot

Enjoy
Thomas

PS: Unfortunately some of the mentioned pictures can't be accessed anymore.
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01-13-2015, 02:43 AM (This post was last modified: 01-13-2015 02:43 AM by Katie Wasserman.)
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RE: Definition of "Fully Blown"
(01-11-2015 11:51 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  I guess this was the source:
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Yep!

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