HP recently discontinued another of my favorite calculators: xhpcalc. xhpcalc is a tri-mode (SCI, FIN, PROG) X-windows simulation of HP-11C/12C/16C that HP bundled with the HP-UX (Unix) operating system on their HP 9000 series workstation.
See http://devrsrc1.external.hp.com/STK/impacts/i188.html
Why discontinue something like this?
I found a HP workstation at my office today that still has HP-UX 10.20 so I could run xhpcalc remotely and have it display on my desktop PC. Clicking the HP logo in the upper right corner makes it cycle through the three modes (keypad faces).
xhpcalc, as a genuine HP product, is certainly worthy of a hpmuseum exhibit. Does anyone have a contact at HP who might be convinced to freely release the source code under some suitable license or at least build and release a free binary for Linux on x86?
Britt