Special Function Sets & HPs

[Matt Agajanian]

(01-31-2016 01:55 AM)Gene Wrote:  Hi Matt! Welcome back.

The function set of the SR-51/51A was more advanced than the same timeframe HP non-programmables, but that in many ways was a function (ha) of the cheaper memory available to TI compared to HP. TI made memory. HP did not.

That said, HP was much more advanced in programmables in that early 1974-1975 timeframe than TI, so perhaps it is a mixed comparison anyway.

For specifics, the SR-51/51A had these functions most HP's did not in 1974-75:
Hyperbolics
Linear regression
Random numbers
Permutations
20 conversions

Most of that was rectified by the time of the HP 32E in 1978.

Thanks Gene! It feels good to be back.