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Hi, all:
As a kind of "Xmas present" to the community, I've made available online yet another of my Datafile articles, namely:
25 Years of Othello
8-page article to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of my HP-41C Othello program.
If you liked the materials in RCL 20 you're bound to love this one, as
it reminisces on those wonderful times back when the HP-41C was brand-new and
everything seemed possible. The article tells the whole story about how my
41C Othello program came to be, with its downs and its ups, and includes
previously unpublished letters from HP Corvallis, as well as a recreation of
the original 41C Othello to run in an HP-71B or under Emu71, in the form of
a 43-line, 2 Kb program with full instructions and examples so that you can
test your wits playing this challenging 8x8 board game against it, to try
and feel what 41C users felt at the time, when seeing it for the first time 25 years ago.
You can download it from my site, where you'll also find 17 additional HP-calc related past Datafile articles of mine.
If you like them, you might consider treating yourself to a Datafile subscription: It's peanuts money, you'll get to read my articles many months in advance as well as many other excellent articles by other extremely knowledgeable HP fans, and you'll be helping Datafile to survive yet another 25 years so that the last and one of the most outstanding instances of fan-supported HP-calc publications doesn't dissappear forever, as PPC, CHHU, and other long-mourned publications sadly did. I'm helping it with my articles, you might help it by subscribing, and thanks to our combined efforts Datafile will flourish for many years to come.
Just as an appetizer, the current Datafile issue carries my latest article,
Long Live the HP-71B ! , a 12-page affair which includes two wonderful photographs, as well as a brand-new program I've written specifically for it, which in just 6 lines of code (!) manages to generate and print user-defined stereograms, viewable from the printed page or monitor output (Emu71) in full, glorious 3-D !
Three sample generated stereograms are included, one of them being a 3-D HP logo :-)
Hope you'll like them all, Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2007 to all of you, may you and your dear ones enjoy peace and happiness unbounded ! :-)
Best regards from V.
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... for your extraordinary contributions to the Community !!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to yourself and your Loved Ones !!!
best Regards from
Antoine
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Antoine M. Couëtte
antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr
( Yesterday in Osaka Kansai,
To-day in DHAKA,
To-nite in Milan,
and the day after to-morrow in Houston,
flying the good DC10-30 Cargo ... )
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You remid me of another famous French Antoine who loved to fly!!! That was many decades ago.
Namir
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I second the others. 8^)
Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil)
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Welcome in Milan, Antoine!
Massimo
Edited: 21 Dec 2006, 12:41 p.m.
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Massimo,
I am based in MALPENSA and fly with CARGOITALIA. I live in Nantes and also near Nantes in Vendée ( Vendée starts to be worldwide known with the Vendée Globe Challenge around the world single seat no port call sail boat race )
Would you be so kind as to e-mail me your e-maill adress for future direct contact between us ?
Thank you and Best Wishes
Antoine
antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr
+33-(0)612 88 06 36
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Antoine, you have PM!
Greetings,
Massimo
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Hi, Valentin --
Thank you for making another of your articles available from the archives.
I browsed through the HPCC Datafile table of contents, and saw that you had prepared a "Long Live the HP-34C!" article recently. I'll plan to join HPCC to offer some support, and will look forward to obtaining and reading your 34C article through a membership.
Best regards,
-- KS
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Hi, Karl ! :-)
Karl posted:
"Thank you for making another of your articles available from the archives."
You're welcome. Thanks for your interest.
"I browsed through the HPCC Datafile table of contents, and saw that you had prepared a "Long Live the HP-34C!" article recently. I'll plan to join HPCC to offer
some support, and will look forward to obtaining and reading your 34C article through a membership."
Why, thank you very much ! :-) If only a tiny percent of the many excellent contributors to this forum did likewise then Datafile's future would be assured for years to come, and further, they would probably get the "article writer's bug" and write some articles for the magazine which would but enhance its contents to ever greater heights of quality and diversity.
It has always amazed me that so few people think about subscribing to Datafile, even though said people are perfectly willing to spend hundreds of dollars to get some calc which they might not use that much, if at all, yet never consider spending a few dollars to get an inexpensive Datafile subscription which will get them lotsa lotsa interesting reading of the kind they are eager to savor here in spades, plus sizable amounts of inspiration to explore and make use of the ideas presented in the articles, such as expanding the programs or converting them to their own favorite models. As Mr. Spock would say, "Most ilogical" ...
As for your interest in HP-34C-related articles, I fully intend to start right now with a new article series in Datafile (in addition to my "Long Live ..." series and assorted articles) which will be dedicated to making available the full contents of my HP Solutions Book "HP-34C Matematica Avanzada" (Advanced Math), which featured 20+ excellent-quality math programs for the HP-34C taking full advantage of all the state-of-the-art capabilities it introduced at the time.
The articles will feature the Solutions Book programs, one by one, but translated to English (the original HP Solutions Book is written in Spanish and was available for sale only in Spain at the time of its publication), and will include further materials and comments.
This way these magnificent programs will be finally available to all HP-calc fan community, and most particularly to HP-34C aficionados, though all of them will run nearly unchanged in an HP-15C and can be very easily converted to other advanced models if desired, such as the HP-41C (+Advantage ROM), the HP42S, the HP-71B, etc., most specially as all formulae and algorithms used will be included in the articles.
So get your Datafile subscription as soon as you can, as a Xmas present say, and you'll be guaranteed the excitement of eagerly waiting for your copy to arrive in the mail and reading it with utmost pleasure as soon as it does, as was the case in the good old PPC times of our youth. :-)
Best regards from V.
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Quote:
It has always amazed me that so few people think about subscribing to Datafile, even though said people are perfectly willing to spend hundreds of dollars to get some calc which they might not use that much, if at all, yet never consider spending a few dollars to get an inexpensive Datafile subscription which will get them lotsa lotsa interesting reading of the kind they are eager to savor here in spades, plus sizable amounts of inspiration to explore and make use of the ideas presented in the articles, such as expanding the programs or converting them to their own favorite models. As Mr. Spock would say, "Most ilogical" ...
Ok Valentin, you have convinced me. I am in (2007).
Best regards,
Gerson.
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Hi, Gerson:
Gerson posted:
"Ok Valentin, you have convinced me. I am in (2007)."
Thanks a lot, Gerson, welcome to the club ! :-)
I'm pretty sure that you'll really enjoy the Datafile articles you'll see published this coming year and will be itching for each and every issue to arrive in the mail, but ...
... but your's a special case. I mean, I actually fully expect that you'll actively contribute by submitting some of your fine articles and programs you've been delighting us with lately, either complementing the ones already known to us, or brand-new ones.
This way, not only will you benefit the community with your fine contributions, but you'll have the extra pleasure of seeing your work in print and trust me, there's a heck of a difference for an author between seeing your work in electronic format on a screen as compared to seeing it featured in an actual, professionally printed publication, which you can show to your wife, and to your children (so they'll get to see that dad is famous enough to be in print! :-) and even colleagues. Further, the
copyright remains with you, Datafile's permit to print your
submittals is non-exclusive, and your works will get archived
in permanent storage forever.
So, what are you waiting for ? Begin that article now, it's gotta get in print by the very next issue of
Datafile, no excuses ! :-)
Best regards from V.
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Hello Valentin,
Thanks for your always kind words. If I ever come up with something worthwhile submitting I'll do it, but no original idea so far... Meanwhile I will certainly enjoy the articles therein, including your promissed ones.
Best regards and
FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO! (Or, as we say here FELIZ NATAL E PRÓSPERO ANO NOVO!)
Gerson.
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P.S.: More Christmas messages in other languages in the card below:
(My father was a UNO blue-beret in the Gaza Stripe, back in 1958. I remember there was a card like this in his photo album.)
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Quote:
Hello Valentin,
Thanks for your always kind words. If I ever come up with something worthwhile submitting I'll do it, but no original idea so far...
Hi Gerson,
As Datafile editor I can safely say that you don't need some wonderful "clever" idea in order to get published. One type of article that I would like to see more of, but rarely get submitted, is a description of how people actually use their calculators in day-to-day life. Some description of your job or work and how a calculator helps is, IMHO, always of interest to others simply because of the insight that it offers. What seems simple and even trivial to you can easily be a tip that has eluded someone else.
You can join on-line here.
You can download a Datafile article template in Word here although its use is not at all obligatory.
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Hello Bruce,
I haven't been able to send the form but I sent the relevant data to the email provided in the link. Please let me know if there is something wrong.
Regards,
Gerson.
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Hi Valentin,
I signed in right now for 2007. Looking forward to the information to receive in the year to come, I wish you a
Merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year!
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Hi, Walter ! :-)
Walter wrote:
"I signed in right now for 2007. Looking forward to the information to receive in the year to come, I wish you a
Merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year!"
Thank you very much ! :-) I'm certain you'll enjoy it immensely, and I for one will do my best to provide a wealth of interesting articles and intriguing applications, as will do all Datafile regular authors. Not to mention the odd 'challenge' from time to time, just to keep everyone on their toes !
Best regards from V.
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