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Please give me all the cool things to know and how to program them in my
calculator.
That kind of reminds me of a boss who once said something like:
"Someday, when I've got a little time to spare, I'll have to have you
show me how all this trigonometry and coordinate system stuff works."
But seriously, other than having the "HP 48G Series Advanced User's
Reference Manual" (AUR) at your fingertips, perhaps the best that I've
ever found is Bill Wickes's "Insights" series. For the 48SX, there's the
"HP 48 Insights Part I: Priniples and Programming" and "HP 48 Insights
Part II: Problem-Solving Resources", and for the 48G series, there's "HP
48 Insight Part I: Principles and Programming HP 48G/GX Edition", all by
William C. Wickes (the "Father of RPL", and an excellent writer and
instructor as well). A "Part II" edition for the 48G series was planned,
but never published; too bad, but there are not really not too many
differences between the 48S series and the 48G series. Unfortunately,
these are long out of print, and I don't know of any on-line versions
(which would require his permission, of course). But maybe some "pre-owned" or "new old stock"
copies will show up on eBay or somewhere like that.
And of course, as nice as this forum is, the comp.sys.hp48 newsgroup
really has a lot more information about the RPL calculators. See
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?group=comp.sys.hp48
to search the archive, or use
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.sys.hp48 ("about 113,000"
threads, starting from 1991-07-24) to just read it. But be aware that
the archive is updated only a few times a day, so it's not the best way
to participate; it's better to use a newsreader instead.
Some other helpful links:
http://www.hpcalc.org/, http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~aschoorl/,
http://etud.epita.fr/~avenar_j/hp/,
http://membres.lycos.fr/ekalin/,
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~raut/,
http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/faculty/gurro/Software_Calculators/Calculators.htm,
and
http://m.webring.com/hub?ring=hp48.
Regards,
James
Edited: 6 Mar 2004, 3:36 a.m.