I have sent a picture of a rare prototype HP-26 I found, particularly relevent to the discussions a while ago about a minimal function HP...
I emailed the pic to Dave as I am not able to host it here, so I hope he inserts it in this message for you.
In fact I worked on the "simplification team" on this one.
but at least mine was believable ....?
Post mine aswell and let the jury decide which they would buy....
And wouldn't you know it, some daring collector has put one up for auction on eBay. Bidding is up to $5364.01 and there's six days left on the auction! When will the madness end!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3601013990&category=4103
I think you all should know that the curator of this museum has decided to censor a Forum submission by adding an = key to a rare and valuable Woodstock.
Has he had a lobotomy???
Dave,
Is this another HP 67CX for April 2003 ;-)
Cheers!
Hey, a minimal calculator!
(So what happened, ENTER wouldn't fit?)
- Michael
Nice.... but the exponential display would never happen... not on an 'ole 4-banger!
Bidding is up to $5364.01???
It's closed at $31 with no retractions or cancellations. What's with the $5364?
Y E C C C H !!!
I'll bet Messrs. Hewlett and Packard are turning in their graves!
Have you taken your Valium recently, Dave? 8^)
-Ernie
No, it isn't. Judging by its features, it ought to be called an HP-00!
-Ernie
Hi Dave,
nice thing!
Soemhow reminds me of an old CBM 'RPN-like' calculator,
the Minuteman 6* (6X*).
Regards,
Raymond
:-)
Wonderfull Prototype. With 16 keys a good name for this machine is HP-16.
It seems like another wonderful RPN machine: the National Semiconductor 600 (http://www.teclas.org/img/NationalSemiconductor_600_01.jpg), but with better quality.
The NS-600 + key has also the ENTER function (there is no need to print on it an = )
OFFTOPIC: Anybody knows any electronic calculator with less keys?.
Try thin one:
http://www.datamath.org/Related/Corvus/CheckMaster.htm
Adds and subtracts - no ENTER key !
Regards, Joerg
Why does it have a CLX key? This machine is cleared by turning it over and shaking.
If that wasn't an April Fools joke, you picked the wrong day for your urgent request to me to post it ;-)
What's hard to see in this picture is that each key rotates on it's own axis and actually has EIGHT surfaces! There are all kinds of wonderful functions on those other surfaces!!!
The Mathbox has one key less,
and is still a fully functional four-banger.
Too bad it has terribly low quality keys...
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/novus_650__mathbox_.html
Raymond
...of course it was an April fool...
but my version was never posted!...sob... :-(