Recommend a watch

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Arrrgh! I'd get hit that.

Where's the "enter" key? Shouldn't an HP calculator watch use RPN?

The site says the calculations were algebraic rather than RPN. That "21" function key was for dates in the 21st century though...does that make up for having no "enter"?

When I was working an operating system conversion project for DASD Corp (later Cap Gemini DASD) in 1978, one of the senior consultants had an HP-01. I was green with envy. Pure conspicuous consumption.

I consoled myself that it was not useful for working on storage dumps because it did not have a hexadecimal mode.

For that I used one of these:

(see: http://www.datamath.org/Sci/MAJESTIC/Programmer.htm )

Or in earlier days...


It was possible to get along wiithout either using the tables on a
green card ...more recent examples of which were neither green, nor were they cards.