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What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Norman Dziedzic - 06-18-2010 In the recent 32Sii thread there seems to be a lot of emphasis on being able to put a calculator in your pocket. Again I find myself feeling in the minority as I rarely have put a calculator in my pocket. I have a couple in my laptop bag. A couple in my desk drawer and if I'm moving about the workplace, I usually have a pile of papers to carry around and just plunk the calc I need on top and carry it around. So, here's my informal poll to ask how important is it to you all to be able to put a calculator in your pocket. I'm thinking in the interest of being able to compare result to stick with a scale of 1 to 4 with
1 - Don't Care
My Vote: 1 - Don't Care
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Bill Zimmerly - 06-18-2010 At the very least, a calculator should be smaller than a Netbook.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Bart (UK) - 06-18-2010 3 - Highly desirable but not essential Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Garth Wilson - 06-18-2010 Putting it in your pocket is a good way to get a lot of lint in the keyboard. If it's in your shirt pocket, you bend over and it falls out. If it's in your pants pocket, you damage it. The calc is more practical to hold if it has some thickness to it.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Bart (UK) - 06-18-2010
Quote:Minimised by keeping it in it's cover. Quote:I've done this quite often and not damaged any. I have kept my mobile phone in my pants pocket every day for the last 8 years without any problems. Perhaps if you put it in the back pocket and sit.... :) Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Egan Ford - 06-18-2010 Since I have a dozen great emulators for my iPhone and my iPhone is almost always in my pocket I'd have to say "1" for a physical calc. But "3" for a virtual one. I travel; a lot. And, do not need the extra weight of a physical calc.
Point missing????? - Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) - 06-18-2010 From the MoHPC´s HP35 page: Quote:I am not quite sure that "shirt pocket-size HP-9100" means it was made to be carried in our pockets, instead that it fits. I surely remember an HP12C´s folder where the calculator is actually placed in (or is taken from) a shirt pocket. How many others show such circumstance amongst the so too many where it is not? Also, IIRC, the size of the HP35 was based on the internal pocket of one of Bill Hewlett´s coat (cannot remember the correct suit's name, sorry), a good pocket for safely keeping a calculator. Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil) Edited: 18 June 2010, 1:10 p.m.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Manatee - 06-18-2010 3 - I like to be able to slip it in my pocket, like a Voyager or Pioneer. Back in the days of the earlier series, the cases had loops and I wore them on my belt, so that was fine. Now... what to do with my iPad?
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - megarat - 06-18-2010 I suppose my vote is: 3 - Highly desirable but not essential W/r/t regular use, I have a tremendous preference for small-form-factor ("pocket-sized") calculators. But even so, I cannot recall a single time that I have ever put a calculator in my pocket.
I also use a 48sx, which is clearly not pocket-sized, but it doesn't get the regular use that my 15c (or 12c/16c) get. (Since it is more of a hand-held computer rather than a calculator, it thus fills a rarer niche.)
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Marcus von Cube, Germany - 06-18-2010
Quote:I'm just thinking of an iHat. :) Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Michael Plant - 06-18-2010 I'd go with #3 as well. My preference is more for a handheld form factor; I never put a calcultor in my pocket.
Re: What it’s got in its nasty little pockets - Marc Ferrer (France) - 06-18-2010 Hello, One more count for the 2nd option : In the days I was doing electronics and prototyping at work, the hp11C was always in my shirt pocket. So lightweight, and just the right size. It made me let the 21 on my desk as a ..guess what ? desk calculator ;-) More generally, I think that if a tool serves you well enough that you miss it as soon as you don't have it with you, no matter the size, the form factor, the weight... you carry it with you, it's a "must have"..
Regards from France, Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Crawl - 06-18-2010 #3. I guess I can't say #4 because the HP50g does NOT fit in most of my pockets. Somehow I make do.
I have damaged a calculator once when I had it in a lapel pocket and I leaned over and it fell out (onto a concrete floor). Pants pockets are a better alternative.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Mark Storkamp - 06-18-2010 http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/18/look-out-flava-flav-ipad-as-fashion-statement/
What? Who’s got nasty little pockets? - Martin Pinckney - 06-18-2010 I would say 2 for me. I occasionally actually carry one in my pants pocket, never shirt. Then I always have one in my back-of-the-seat pocket in my truck, but that's a big pocket.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Maximilian Hohmann - 06-18-2010 Hello! #1 Even in the days when I needed a calculator, I never carried one in a pocket. I always hated (and still do) to have things in my pockets.
max
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Jim Horn - 06-18-2010 Perhaps #2. I use Free42 the most (it's in my Palm Tungsten E2 that's almost always with me) followed by my HP50g (thank you, Joe!!) then my HP20b (Thank you, Cyrille!!). I *used* to use my Casio scientific calculator watch daily until the "8" key fell out. I still wish somebody would license the Casio Databank watches and redo the ROM slightly to make them scientific and RPN. Now that is a calculator that would always be available.
Jim Horn (don't use my HP-01 any more - too heavy and limited - and really miss my HP42S)
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Peter A. Gebhardt - 06-18-2010 Putting it (Pioneers size and less) into my jackets inner pockets often - not in shirts pockets. So I'm preferring #3
Best regards
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Walter B - 06-18-2010 #3, too. I like to put it in my shirt pocket or - safer - in the inner pocket of my jacket. But I won't wear my jacket wherever I may need a calc. Yes, there's a risk it may fall out of my shirt - my Nokia does it every once and a while but survived so far, so why can't a calc be as sturdy? No such problem with the old belt bags, a more modern design may do it today as well. Edited: 18 June 2010, 6:16 p.m.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - db (martinez, ca.) - 06-18-2010 for me: #3. i sewed a big interior pocket vertically in my orange vest. Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Norman Dziedzic - 06-19-2010 Here is what we have so far. The 3's are in the lead!
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Thomas Radtke - 06-19-2010 I'd say, it's essential to fit the pocket if you're a pocket calculator ;-).
Seriously, to me it is essential. And it is likewise essential not to put it in before tying my shoes (thanks Walter for reminding me!).
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - DaveJ - 06-19-2010 Quote:
Simply because the vast majority around DON'T fit in your pocket, there are hardly any truly small scientific calculators around. Wish I had the time to finish this one:
Dave.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Gordon Strickland - 06-19-2010 Has anyone else noticed how gender-specific these responses are? No consideration of how well a given calculator fits into a purse, to what extent the key spacing accommodates long fingernails, and similar considerations.
Some would say that it is this kind of thing that is keeping women out of technical fields, but I don't know. Perhaps the problem is more general. After all, women have been slaves for the last 5,000 years; why should they now want to get into science or engineering?
If you-all don't stop being nassty, I'll button up my pocketses and go home. - Martin Pinckney - 06-19-2010 Quote:Has anyone notice how gender-specific the membership on this forum is? I can name the women members that I know of on the fingers of one hand... uh, I meant 1 finger! Quote:Who? Quote:Huh???
Edited: 19 June 2010, 11:14 p.m.
Re: If you-all don't stop being nassty, I'll button up my pocketses and go home. - Katie Wasserman - 06-20-2010 Some good points here. Fingernails are a big problem so I find that I use my Qualitron La Femme most of the time.
Edited: 20 June 2010, 12:52 a.m.
Re: If you-all don't stop being nassty, I'll button up my pocketses and go home. - Thomas Radtke - 06-20-2010 How does the keyboard of your 32SII look like, Katie? I have an IBM Selectric I and could take molds of its previous owners fingernails from the keytops. So, women can actually adapt keyboards to their needs!
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Keith Midson - 06-20-2010 I'm a bit late in responding to this one, but seeing as I made a comment in the 32Sii thread, here goes ... Re: If you-all don't stop being nassty, I'll button up my pocketses and go home. - Don Shepherd - 06-20-2010 A mirror on the back of the calculator. Gee, that's probably more important than a double-width ENTER key!
Re: If you-all don't stop being nassty, I'll button up my pocketses and go home. - Maximilian Hohmann - 06-20-2010 Quote: Obviously, there is a market for this kind of calculator (well, around 50 percent of the population I would estimate ;-) ). I have this one in my collection (no-name product):
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Bart (UK) - 06-20-2010 :-))))
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Geir Isene - 06-21-2010 3
Unless the uCALC goes into production, then I might reconsider and say 4.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Ken Shaw - 06-21-2010 A bit late, but I also vote "3".
I never put a calculator in my pocket, but the so-called pocket-size has some kind of "je ne sais quoi"/convenience factor to it that is not satisfied by the larger models.
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Jeff O. - 06-21-2010 You are cruel to taunt us!
Quote: Me too!
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - megarat - 06-21-2010 Dude, I wish you had time to finish that one as well. I'd buy two!
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Hugh Evans - 06-23-2010 Filthy thieving Bagginses! 3
I keep a 35s at work and my 11c, 42s, and 48sx at home. Being able to carry the 11c in my shirt pocket was always nice, but I don't like risking such a fine vintage machine for daily use :( Can HP please reissue a programmable scientific voyager?
Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Martin Pinckney - 06-23-2010 Quote:You mean like a "15c+"? Shall we start that discussion again? Re: What it’s got in its nassty little pocketses - Hugh Evans - 06-23-2010 That would be nice. Work has traveling quite a bit at the moment, and once things settle down I plan to do some dissections and start discussing the manufacture of some new guts. Even if it won't fit in my pockets(es) I'd love to have free42 running in calculator hardware.
Re: If you-all don't stop being nassty, I'll button up my pocketses and go home. - Hugh Evans - 06-23-2010 Actually, it's closer to 52% since males don't have the benefit of backup x and y chromosomes.
Dave J: Please find time. - db (martinez, ca.) - 06-24-2010 you make it and i'll buy one & wear it around my neck every day at work - held by a bungee lanyard so i can hold it far enough away to read.
Re: Dave J: Please find time. - DaveJ - 06-25-2010 Quote:
With work, the video blog, other higher priority projects, and a bunch of other everyday stuff, I doubt I'll ever get time to even work on it again, let alone finish it. It really needs someone to take over the firmware I think.
Dave. Edited: 25 June 2010, 9:39 p.m.
Re: Dave J: Please find time. - Paul Dale - 06-25-2010 I'd offer but I'm flat out at my new job and don't get much time to do anything out of hours :-(
- Pauli
Re: Dave J: Please find time. - Katie Wasserman - 06-25-2010 Dave, I enjoy your video blogs, but take some time off from them and do this project. It will give you even more to blog about!
-Katie
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