[Elecraft] FORTH

Mon Apr 18 09:50:13 EDT 2005

I'm holding on to my HP15C which I bought in college in 1987, still have the receipt.  My boss here was looking for a good RPN calculator and figured he might find that one on eBay cheap.  WRONG!  Turns out that very good examples of it, complete with manual and case are about $300 to $400.  Even one with a broken LCD display was still over $100, more than I paid for it new.  Not sure when (or why) HP discontinued it.  They still make the financial version (HP12C) which is the same form factor, just different button assignments.

I also have an HP48G+ which is still RPN.  Not sure if it is still made or not.  I got the '48 about 5 years ago.  Some of the '48s have expandable memory slots, however, mine has 128k fixed RAM.  I've seen where people have programmed it to use its IR port as a remote control!

Hmm, wonder if the HP48 can be used to control the K2?

Mark, NK8Q

>From: Chris <chris at viking-house.com>
>Date: Mon Apr 18 07:54:35 CDT 2005
>To: Jessie Oberreuter <joberreu at moselle.com>
>Cc: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>, Kevin Rock <kevinrock at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FORTH

>Are there any decent modern RPN calcs? I had a much loved HP32SII but I 
>lost it when I moved house and have not been able to find a decent 
>replacement. I have soft RPN calc on my palm, but I like proper buttons 
>to push.
>
>Chris - VP8BKF
>
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>> and it will pring 27!  Every modern RPN calculator should come with a 
>> built in FORTH :).
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