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Post: #2
05-16-2007, 11:54 PM
 Does anyone know about this? http://clustrmaps.com/products.htm If Dave thinks it is safe (i would really hate to be the one who found a way to crash the site), would it be interesting to know where people reading this forum are? Another question is; could it be stuck somewhere to keep it out of the way because the free version has an ad banner.
We know where i am: Martinez is the center of the world, but where are all of you? Edited: 17 May 2007, 12:01 a.m. ▼
Post: #5
05-17-2007, 04:40 AM
Hi all,
here is a question that I really wanted to ask for a long time, but without daring to do it.
My answer to all of these questions and others asked before in the Forum : Kind regards. JML ▼
Post: #6
05-17-2007, 05:11 AM
Hi.
43°40'41"N that is, in the center of Italy, along the Adriatic sea. I'm an electronic engineer and my current job is being a Project Portfolio Manager (in the electronic division of my company). Best regards. Giancarlo ▼
Post: #7
05-17-2007, 06:12 AM
Hello Giancarlo! BTW: I spent one month in Fano in 1982 serving the Army
Greetings, ▼
Post: #8
05-17-2007, 06:28 AM
Hi Massimo.
Post: #9
05-17-2007, 07:51 AM
Hi all, Just for the fun ;-) 28º 07' 57" N 15º 26' 14" W Canary Islands. Engineer at the Telephone Company, 48yo (eager for early retirement :-)) Lots of 41's (+25). I use one daily, the rest of them are mostly to check my projects functionality. Some 71's waiting for me to have enough spare time to begin messing'em up with probes, scopes, and the like... Cheers. Diego.
Post: #10
05-17-2007, 08:18 AM
Oops, I simply forgot :
the name of the village where I live is Donnery, about 20 km far from Orléans, to the East.
Post: #11
05-17-2007, 03:06 PM
Theoretical nuclear physicist. http://rasputin.physics.uiuc.edu/~paris Glad to be among such admirable and excellent professionals. Mark ▼
Post: #12
05-17-2007, 05:38 PM
What a rich tradition in math and theoretical physics, you and Jean Michel have there in France! And to be in education, standing "on the shoulders" of so many great men and women! I am on Mobile Bay, Eastern Shore, about 88.5W, 30.5N; or 1.5 East of New Orleans, Katrina's eastern boudary - got the reference to Orleans, Jean-Michel. Schooled at Tulane and University of New Orleans. Would like to visit your part of France someday.already been to Paris a few times. Would like to get a few threads on Relativity, Quantum, String, etc., plus other "Theoreticl" thoughts - would be kind of selfih of me since I would have little to contribute beyond some some good questions. If "y'all" are interested maybe we could get some stimulating chatter in a new subject. Regards, Ron
Edited: 17 May 2007, 5:50 p.m.
Post: #13
05-18-2007, 03:57 PM
Jeffrey Davis
Post: #15
05-17-2007, 12:43 PM
I'm age 42, currently living in North Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, and employed as a Software Engineer by a large telecommunications company whose logo looks like the Death Star from the original Star Wars movie. ;-) I own a small collection of calculators (HP-25, 67, 15C, 42S, 48G; TI-58, 59, 58C) but I never use them since I spend all my day working with various computers (and of course I installed Free42 on all of them). - Thomas
Post: #16
05-17-2007, 12:56 PM
Hi.
WHO CITY REGION / STATE COUNTRY Best regards. Giancarlo ▼
Post: #17
05-17-2007, 10:00 PM
Giancarlo-- Please keep us updated at your leisure on the latest info. tm
Post: #18
05-17-2007, 01:02 PM
Comodoro Rivadavia, República Argentina. Small city in the middle of the east coast of Patagonia Argentina.
Post: #19
05-17-2007, 01:14 PM
the capital of Planet Earth: New York City
... well, very close, anyway. Edited: 17 May 2007, 1:14 p.m.
Post: #20
05-17-2007, 01:53 PM
Boise, Idaho (USA). ▼
Post: #21
05-17-2007, 03:01 PM
Trent Moseley, 80 years old. Retired engineer from The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Live in Redwood City California for the last 50 years, on the San Francisco Peninsula. This is near db across the Bay in Martinez. tm
Post: #23
05-17-2007, 06:06 PM
Birmingham, Alabama Sysadmin HP-16C, HP-41CX, HP48GX
K+E 4081-3, Post VersaLog, Pickett N600-ES, etc. Edited: 17 May 2007, 6:09 p.m.
Post: #24
05-17-2007, 06:47 PM
Hi, Martinez:
Nam: Valentin AlbilloBest regards from V.
Edited: 17 May 2007, 8:14 p.m.
Post: #25
05-17-2007, 06:52 PM
Richard Garner Twice as Nice, Twin City of Texarkana Arkansas/Texas. Known as the only city in the world where the dividing line between the 2 cities and 2 states is a City Street/Federal Highway, State Line Avenue. The Federal Courthouse/Post Office sits straddling the state line between the 2 states. I work for the City of Texarkana, Arkansas as an Engineering Technician/Drafter/CAD-GIS Operator in the Public Works Department. I use an HP 42S, HP 48GX on a daily basis. I own or have owned 41CX, 42S, 48SX, 48GX, 28S, 15C, 20C, & 33S ▼
Post: #26
05-17-2007, 08:31 PM
Trinidad, West Indies.
Post: #27
05-26-2007, 03:56 PM
Hi, Richard --
Quote:
which is one of many "border oddities" between Canada and the US' New England region, which includes towns and even houses bisected by the border, which were platted or built prior to accurate surveying.
Er, yes, HP calculator-related content: Click on the link for the Library and Opera House, and notice that the co-ordinates for Derby Line, Vermont is slightly north of 45 degrees North. I'd always assumed that the international border there was exactly 45 degrees. However, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty established the location 3/4 of a mile north of the line, so that a pre-existing U.S. fort would be on U.S. soil. Convert the 45 degrees, 0 minutes, 20.81 seconds latitude of Derby Line to decimal using " 45.002081 ->HR ". Multiply the fractional part by 60 nautical miles per degree of latitude. Then, multiply by 1.15077714646 to obtain 0.39913 US statute miles, placing the Library and Opera House less than a half-mile north of the Derby Line location (presumably City Hall). The ideal tool for this calculation is the HP-28C/S, with its fine units library with definitions and conversions. (Unfortunately, units cannot be attached to numbers, as with the HP-48/49/50.) Regarding calcutions for surveying: If one does not wich to purchase specialized calculating software or tools, or the accessories for the HP-48/49/50 series, there are several less-expensive options:
Edited: 27 May 2007, 3:51 p.m.
Post: #28
05-17-2007, 10:46 PM
Originally from Vienna, Austria now New York City. Physicist by training, now working in Finance. Use a 41CY for work almost daily. Since recently also use a 71b (the 'culprit' for that change can be found among the Grandmasters here...) on a daily basis, though more for play and learning as I am still not very good with it (but I am getting better!) Cheers Peter
Post: #29
05-17-2007, 11:01 PM
Living in Flagstaff, Arizona (where it is fairly cool, unlike most people's perception of Arizona - we are at an elevation of 7000 feet!) My favorite place in the world, though, may be Green Bank, West Virginia - the original site of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. I'm a semi-retired Radio Astronomer. In order of acquisition, I have HP35, 11C, 41CX, 38G (via eBay, I was faked out by the big "enter" key - thought it was RPN but it's algebraic!), 41C (via ebay), 32Sii, 42S, 48GX, and 33S (all acquired new except as noted). I used my Dad's 35 for 2 days straight to finish my thesis, then I had to get one of my own. I still use one of the 41's almost every day for both scientific and casual calculations.
Post: #30
05-17-2007, 11:39 PM
29º 44' N You figure it out. :) 25 years old. I'm an electrical engineer by training, but I currently write software for the oil and gas industry.
Post: #31
05-18-2007, 12:38 AM
Electrical Engineer in Vancouver, Washington, USA -- in same metropolitan area as "MoHPC headquarters". The city and state are named for George Vancouver and George Washington, as are the better-known namesake North American cities. Bought first RPN calculator (HP-15C) in 1983; started collecting in 2002 with HP-41CV, HP-34C, and HP-42S. -- KS
Post: #32
05-18-2007, 02:18 AM
China No, not one of those Chinas; I'm about at the point of this green arrow, the center of my universe for longer than I can remember. There isn't anywhere that I'd rather be. It's been about 500730 hours since I drew my first breath. Metrology technician (quality assurance). HP: 12C, 16C, 28C, 28S, 48SX, 48GX, 49G, 49g+, 50g, 82240A, 82240B Sharp: EL-5520 Radio Shack: EC-4004 Lloyd's: E608
Regards,
Edited: 18 May 2007, 2:43 a.m. ▼
Post: #33
05-18-2007, 11:30 AM
Rats! While I was playing around with the Radio Shack EC-4004 (re-badged Casio fx-3600P) the original CR2025 cell finally went dead. I know for certain that I used it in 1988, and perhaps a few years before that, so that CR2025 lasted about 20 years. But I'll grant that it's seldom been turned on since I got my hands on the HP-28S.
Regards,
Post: #34
05-21-2007, 06:55 PM
PS: For work, normally a 48SX, but occasionally a 48GX. For "real work" at home (when I just want to get some calculating done with no nonsense), either a 48SX or 48GX, whichever one is easiest to reach. For just playing around with, most often the 50g now, but sometimes the 49g+ or 49G. The Sharp is "interesting" and powerful, but I rather object to switching between "calculator" mode for ordinary interactive calculating and "basic" mode for writing and running programs, and of course, in calculator mode, it's an algebraic model. The Radio Shack is interesting and powerful too, even though it's algebraic, and writing programs for it can be rather a challenge, but I'm often amazed at how much can be accomplished in just 38 program steps (but some things, such as storing a number into a constants register, count as only 1 program step, not 3 as might be expected). The Lloyds is just a simple 8-digit 4-banger plus square root, %, +/-, and a memory register, but it's my oldest still-working calculator, and it still works with the original battery from about 1980. I overlooked at least one, even though it's often in my shirt pocket, a Radio Shack EC-232. This is a thin solar-powered "credit card-sized" 4-banger with a membrane keypad. It's a pain in the neck to use, but the nice thing about it is that it fits in my shirt pocket so comfortably.
Regards,
Post: #35
05-18-2007, 02:33 AM
Montebelluna, 20 Km from Treviso which is 20 Km from Venice. -- Antonio
Post: #36
05-18-2007, 03:14 AM
Hi all.
WHO CITY REGION / STATE COUNTRY I did practice some geography because of some of you bad guys ;-) Best regards. Giancarlo ▼
Post: #37
05-18-2007, 04:32 AM
Nice effort, Giancarlo !
Just a couple of well-spirited suggestions:
Post: #40
05-18-2007, 05:49 AM
Hi.
WHO CITY REGION / STATE COUNTRY AGE JOB Best regards. Giancarlo ▼
Post: #41
05-18-2007, 10:01 AM
Well, I'm 41 and I'm a civil engineer, with 75 calculators in the collection, and among these 17 HPs. Just to update your table, Giancarlo! -- Antonio P.S. My father had your name. ▼
Post: #42
05-18-2007, 10:20 AM
Antonio, ▼
Post: #43
05-18-2007, 12:56 PM
Sorry for Antonio's father, too.
Greetings,
Post: #44
05-18-2007, 10:48 AM
Giancarlo, This is GREAT! Thanks for all the work. I second Valentin's suggestion that this somehow become a quick intro to the denizens of the forum. Is there some way to make this updatable by each of us so you don't have to do all the work? (Probably not - somebody will trash it!) Actually, once the initial work is done, it might not be too much work to add new folks as they send you their details. I would suggest instead of age (which changes!) that year of birth be used. Maybe also a column for number/brands of calculators (like the recent round of such info) as well as a column for favorite(s). PS for the current table, I'm 61.
Post: #45
05-18-2007, 12:20 PM
Hi, Giancarlo: Giancarlo posted (the underlining is mine):
This would be much more interesting and IMHO preferable to a long list of calculators in everyone's collection. As the jobs are being included too, it's far more relevant and interesting to know that an astronomer, say, still uses an HP-41CX for work, than to know that he owns precisely such, and such, and such, and ... vintage calcs. Also, if at all possible, sort the list. It's very easy to do using a great variety of tools and applications, but all failing, issuing a simple SORT command in an MS-DOS box under Windows, like this:
SORT < inputlist.txt > sortedlist.txt
say (or a variant), will do the work.
Thanks a lot for your efforts and Best regards from V.
Post: #46
05-18-2007, 12:51 PM
Massimo Gnerucci, Milano, Italy.
Edited: 18 May 2007, 12:53 p.m.
Post: #47
05-18-2007, 03:16 AM
Hello neighbours (Antonio, Giancarlo, Massimo) ... I am still far enough (Zagreb, Croatia) from the Adriatic sea so I don't have to be affraid of global warming too much. Age: 37 Job: Software Developer Calculators used: (3x) HP-48GX running HP-71X (with HP-IL emu), HP-42X, HP-41X (with HP-IL emu), HP-15X, HP-16E, HP-11E, HP-12E and TI-57E (in order of significance) (1x) HP-48G expanded to 1280K running all above (1x) HP-48G+ running HP-15E, HP-16E, HP-11E and TI-57E (1x) HP-49G running HP-71X (with HP-IL emu)
Best regards.
Edited: 24 May 2007, 1:32 a.m. after one or more responses were posted ▼
Post: #49
05-18-2007, 10:03 AM
We are nearer than I thought! Probably, to go to Zagreb, I'd take less time than to go to Milano! -- Antonio
Post: #51
05-18-2007, 03:58 AM
I live partly in Philadelphia, USA and Athens, Greece. Here are my ICBM coordinates for Athens:
and this is a picture of me with the Acropolis of Athens in the background:
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Post: #52
05-18-2007, 04:10 AM
Living in France, 42 years young, in Finance but originally an engineer.
Post: #55
05-18-2007, 06:13 AM
Name: Les Wright Age: 42 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Usual Job: Physician Present Activities: Student, musician, temporarily retired man of leisure, mathematics and programming hobbyist, co-parent of many cats.
Calculators: HP 11C, 12Cp, 15C, 17bii, 14B, 28S, 33C, 34C, 32sii, 33S, 42S, 45, 65, 67, 80, 97, 48G, 49G+. 41CV and 41CX plus some peripherals (82143a, 82162a, wand, card reader, 82240B, HP-IL module, IR module, Math Pac, Stat Pac, Advantage Pac, XF and XM modules). Plus regular use of emulators/simulators (Free42, P41CX, Power48, Emu48, V41). None of calculators NIB, but some (like the 15C and 32sii) are in nearly new condition. All are fully functional, with card readers restored in the calculators that have them (many thanks as always to FixThatCalc.com). Edited: 18 May 2007, 6:14 a.m.
Post: #56
05-18-2007, 10:18 AM
San Mateo, California, USA. Systems Architect/Engineer for the company that invented TLAs. Age 51. 41C[VX], 71B, 42S, 12C, 15C, 16C, 11C, 12C Anniversary, 67, 97, 35, 45, 38C, 28S, 19BII, 18B, 75[CD], 48S[X}, 48G[X+], 49G, 49G+ 50G.
Regards
Edited: 18 May 2007, 10:20 a.m. ▼
Post: #57
05-18-2007, 11:01 AM
Trondheim, Norway (63 24N, 10 23E) about the same latitude as Nome, Alaska, although far milder climate thanks to the Gulf Current! Retired architect and musician (72). Have only a 10C, 48SX and 48GX (plus a large collection of Aristo slide rules). Used to own a 41CX and a couple of other HPs, three Camb.Sinclairs, etc. etc.
Post: #58
05-18-2007, 10:56 AM
Hi.
COUNTRIES COUNT AGE AVG. Best regards. Giancarlo ▼
Post: #59
05-18-2007, 12:17 PM
Name: Frank Balzer Age: 40 Location: Flensburg, Germany Job: Physicist, working for an university in Denmark (nanotechnology, photonics) Own about 70 HP calculators, on a daily basis I use an HP-33S.
Post: #60
05-19-2007, 11:36 AM
...There must be a reason for the fact the average age is over 45. HP, won't you gain even young guys rebuilding some of the old models with the old quality? Are you listening? -- Antonio
Post: #62
05-18-2007, 03:19 PM
Name: Tom Scott
Post: #63
05-18-2007, 03:30 PM
Hechingen, Germany 52 Nuclear physicist, for > 20 years in industry (R&D, QM) Most of scientific HP calcs with the big ENTER key, plus some other models.
Edited: 18 May 2007, 3:41 p.m.
Post: #64
05-18-2007, 05:01 PM
Location: Yorba Linda, CA DOB: 1947 Occupation: Retired - Microwave Radar Technician
Calculators: Commonly used - HP-41 - Hardware expandable and keystroke programming. IMHO no other "calculator" has ever come close to its capabilities or ease of use. If it can't be done by an HP-41 its time to fire up the PC. ▼
Post: #65
05-18-2007, 05:54 PM
Name: Paul Guertin Age: 34 Location: Montreal, Canada Job: math teacher Calculators: 12 HP (21, 25, 41CV, 11C, 12C, 15C, 16C, 32S, 32Sii, 28S, 48GX, 71B) and a TI 92 Plus.
Post: #66
05-18-2007, 06:17 PM
Mobile Bay is in Alabama - I went to college in New Orleans. Retired from the computer business: IBM, REI, ITEL. STARTED WITH THE TI 59, my first programmable about 1975. First programs for demonstrations in the field included financial and operations analysis deriving workload projections using learning curves and ques based on reliability statistics for various equipment installed. Other uses of the hp line included statistical analysis in market research (mostly before laptops with significant storage). Now using the hp50g in my retirement as a hobby: projecting value of timber harvests, photography in such things as depth of field calculations, etc. and current pet is catching up on readings in theoretical physics. Cities lived in during working career: Birmingham, Al, Anniston, Al, Huntsville, Al, New Orleans, La, Dallas, Tx, Frankfurt, Germany, Chicago, Il, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Ca, San Fancisco Bay area, Ca, Pensacola, Fl, Tryon, N.C., Montgomery, Al, and finally in Fairhope, AL, a neat village on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Reminds me much of the village of Carmel, California and the string of villages between San Francisco and San Jose: Palo Alto, Mountain View, Saratoga, Los Gatos, to name only a few. As Director of Product Assurance, I enjoyed the opportunity to live in Cupertino just a few blocks from HP.
Post: #67
05-18-2007, 06:38 PM
Andrés C. Rodríguez Edited: 18 May 2007, 7:50 p.m. after one or more responses were posted
Post: #69
05-18-2007, 07:29 PM
Jim Creybohm
Full time Petroleum Engineer Thanks to Randy, my 41, 42S, 12, 25 and 67 are humming along as good as ever.
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Post: #70
05-18-2007, 11:39 PM
Don age 68 Agriculture: My wife & I raise wheat, cattle and a small band of sheep. I live in Central Montana....closest neighbor is 5 miles (getting a little crowded, maybe time to think about moving) I have 3 or 4 41's and a load of 10B's and a 19B11. My work with calculators is nearly all finance. Definitely not high finance. Still use my 41C I bought in 1979. Still have my HP 85 I bought from Educalc in about 1980-82? I feel like a square peg in a round hole on this forum with all you engineer types. Don ▼
Post: #71
05-19-2007, 11:49 AM
Don: Went to School of Mines in Butte, and also ordered my 41CX from Educalc in '82 or 83. I remember being wowed as UPS delivered it in only 4 days! To my door! I think the cost was around 250 USD. What I wouldn't give to have Educalc around today.... Still travel down annually to Anaconda to golf Old Works.
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Post: #72
05-19-2007, 11:01 PM
Hi Jim; Sounds like we have alot in common. I was raised around the oil patch on the gulf coast of Texas in the 40's and early 50's. Spent a little time in the late 60's and early 70's buying oil & gas leases in the Powder River basin......didn't make any money. Am not a cat wrangler, but do have a 3 year old cocker spaniel who takes me for a long walk every day. And I have spent many days horseback in my younger years. Wanted to go to school at Colorado school of mines, but ended up at Denver University instead. Am not a golfer however. best wishes Don
Post: #73
05-18-2007, 11:55 PM
Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age: 48 (1959) Occupation: Electrical Engineer Calcs: HP35(4), 80(2), 45(3), 55(2), 65(1), 67(1), 21(2), 22(1), 25(3), 29C(1), 41C(2), 41CX(2), 16C(1), 12C(1). One nonfunctional 41C Tall Key
Favorite: The 25 for sentimental value, the 67 for wow factor. Edited: 18 May 2007, 11:56 p.m. ▼
Post: #74
05-19-2007, 04:47 AM
Place: Manchester, United Kingdom, Europe Name: Ian Jackson Age: 40 Occupational: Independent Nuclear Consultant (www.JacksonConsult.com) HP Calcs: HP-12C, HP-32S, HP-14B (used regularly) Backup HP Calcs: HP-10C, HP-11C, HP-17B, HP-19BII, HP-42S, HP-27S Best wishes Ian J ▼
Post: #75
05-19-2007, 09:13 AM
I'm French, living in Encinitas, California, north of San Diego.
Age 44, designing software and hardware for a semi-conductor company. I'm also using Free42, x48 and Emu48 on various computers... -- alain.
Post: #76
05-19-2007, 10:27 AM
Age 29, living in Luxembourg, physics teacher. I own "not too many" HP calculators. Several HP48GX's and HP49G's and some HP32sii's. I often play around with a HP42 and a HP97. homepage: http://www.physique.lu ▼
Post: #77
05-19-2007, 10:49 AM
Hi all, except if I made a mistake on a firstname (Marta ?), I didn't notice any woman in this long list... "Où êtes-vous Mesdames ?" (Were are you, Madame ?) On the contrary, lots of physicists... Howerver that may be, all of this is sympathetic ! Regards, JML
Post: #78
05-19-2007, 11:44 AM
Name: Jeff Kearns Born: 1965 Job: Engineering Manager and formerly a Marine Engineer Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Calculators: HP 33E, 41C, 15C, 32sii, 33s, 49G+, Free42, and P41CX for Palm Main Calculator: HP 41C with Advantage Pac, Machine Design, MATH/STAT and Quad Mem. I also use the others regularly. My main uses are for Finance, Applied Statistics, Calculus.
Post: #79
05-19-2007, 11:53 AM
location: Rye Brook, NY -- 21 miles northeast of the true center of the world. calculators: 100+ HP's, 275 or so others age: right in there with the rest of this group occupation: computer consulting, financial firms mostly
only claim to fame :) Google ranks my site number one when searching for calculator manuals wass.net Edited: 19 May 2007, 11:54 a.m.
Post: #80
05-19-2007, 12:27 PM
Hello to all from NY ( NJ ) almost the center of the world, but ... just after Nantes : Name : Antoine M. Couëtte
Hobbies: Celestial Navigation, Navigation in general and maritime navigation in particular, Solar System Planetary Theories, HP41 Programming, " Baroque " Music ( i.e. European music between 1630 and 1760 ) , playing the organ or the piano, writing music, and of course ... long haul flying around the world
Calculators : HP41X/Y/Z running on HP48GX and HP49G from HrastProgrammer, and Emu41 by Jean-François Garnier Best Regards to everybody and in particular to Valentin since I " cut and pasted " the frame of your own answer.
Post: #82
05-19-2007, 02:52 PM
Nenad Vulic Split, Croatia 46 years old Mechanical Engineer (www.crs.hr)
Post: #83
05-20-2007, 01:10 AM
Who: Les Bell
City: Sydney Age: 51 Job: Information security consultant, lecturer, author. Though I've taken a year away from most work to complete a Masters degree and (perhaps) start a PhD. Calculators: Still have a 16C, 41CV, 41CX (with various peripherals & Pacs), plus a 48GX, all bought new. Over the years I've also had a 45, 65, 67 and 41C. Hobbies: Flying, playing (well, trying to play) guitar. Best,
--- Les ▼
Post: #84
05-20-2007, 10:36 AM
With most of your suggestions (date of birth instead of age, ordering, used calcs @ work):
NAME CITY REGION / STATE COUNTRY DOB JOB CALCS USED @ WORK Hope the listing is not becoming too messy to be showed as a message... I'm sorry but I'm not sure I'll be able to implement & maintain the list of calcs with favourites and so on... Also the stats have been updated:
COUNTRIES COUNT AGE AVG. Yes, it looks like a big, variegated family :-) Best regards. Giancarlo ▼
Post: #85
05-21-2007, 10:57 AM
I hate to be the geek to point this out, but you can't reliably find a person's year of birth by subtracting their age from the current year! I'm 42 but I was born in 1964. - Thomas ▼
Post: #86
05-21-2007, 11:07 AM
Thomas,
Post: #87
05-21-2007, 11:23 AM
Please add my data:
Name: Nelson M. SicuroBest regards, Nelson
Post: #88
05-21-2007, 01:29 PM
Buon giorno Giancarlo, please add 1954 as my DOB (though I gave you my age, but it was ambiguous). Mille grazie!
Post: #89
05-21-2007, 01:41 PM
Name: Richard Ottosen Occupation: Consulting in the design of small embedded computers. Used every day: HP-41C (bought new and still looks and works that way).
RPN calculators owned: 41C with Quad Memory, HP32SII, 2 each DIY-RPN 25, DIY-RPN 33.
Hobbies:
Post: #91
05-20-2007, 05:27 PM
As Garrison Keillor once said; "ask a question, get an answer". In this instance; the answers were better than my question. To Anntoine M. Couëtte: Ah, but Martinez is the center of the surface of the world. No place on earth is farther than 180 degrees around the spheroid from us. While this can be claimed by any other place, i thought of it first. "I leave the proof of this as an exercise for the reader". To Giancarlo: You did a great job on that database. Next time one of life's riddles rears it's head; i'm calling you. The blank info for me is 1955, Surveyor & Licensed Engineering Contractor, 41cx. ▼
Post: #92
05-21-2007, 11:02 AM
Quote: ...but since the Earth is flattened at the poles, the North Pole has a better claim to be the center of the surface of the Earth. And if you limit your possible destinations to dry land, you'd probably have to pick a spot somewhere in the Middle East. (Update: Egypt, actually.) (Another update: Turkey, actually -- I should have read that web page more carefully the first time around!) It's all moot, anyway. Everybody knows New York is the center of the universe. ;-) - Thomas
Edited: 21 May 2007, 2:22 p.m. after one or more responses were posted ▼
Post: #93
05-21-2007, 01:12 PM
Quote:
Yeah but, you know, Roma: Caput Mundi(1), Urbs Aeterna(2). Omnes viae Romam perducunt(3)...
Edited: 21 May 2007, 1:28 p.m. ▼
Post: #95
05-21-2007, 02:10 PM
Ciao Massimo, "ROMA TIBI SVBITO MOTIBVS IBIT AMOR" This has not to do with Rome being the Capital of the World, but might be a good reason for anyone who was born there never leave ;-) Regards, Gerson.
Post: #98
05-20-2007, 10:25 PM
Name: John Keith
Post: #99
05-21-2007, 10:37 AM
Hello!
My home base according to Google Maps: 48.529853 (North), 9.035555 (East), in Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, GermanyGreetings, Max
Edited: 21 May 2007, 11:16 a.m.
Post: #100
05-21-2007, 10:52 AM
Here are my coordinates:
Post: #101
05-21-2007, 09:30 PM
this is a fun project ... to contribute:
location: Seattle, USA, Earth
cheers!
Post: #102
05-22-2007, 01:56 AM
Hi, Olivier, 46yr-old, used to be a salesman in computers (Tandy, DEC, NeXT, Compaq, HP,...) I'm located in Levallois-Perret, close suburb of Paris (N-W).
Location: Here's a view on my collection: http://calc.treger.net (around 50 calcs all together) Enjoy
Post: #103
05-22-2007, 02:55 AM
Hi all.
Thank you for contributing. ▼
Post: #104
05-22-2007, 09:25 AM
To fill some gaps: YOB: 1967 JOB: Physicist Calcs used at work: Currently an OEM Sharp scientific (no one ever steals a calc like that) at workplace #1, 32SII, 48G and TI-66 at workplace #2 (my home) Thomas
Post: #105
05-22-2007, 03:40 PM
Giancarlo, Please update: Year of birth: 1926 HP calcs owned: HP-25C, HP-31E, HP-67, HP-12C, HP-15C, HP-16C, HP-32Sii, HP-33S, and an HP-42S. Thanks. I would of done this by e-mail but it's having problems right now. tm
Post: #107
05-22-2007, 03:55 PM
WOW, suddenly found myself with a new job and new calcs! The infor probably belong to a friend one line above or below me ....
Let me correct my information: Meindert ▼
Post: #108
05-23-2007, 02:49 AM
Meindert,
Post: #109
05-24-2007, 03:45 AM
Some update on me:
YOB: 1966
Post: #113
05-24-2007, 08:04 PM
Giancarlo, thank you for the care you put on this project!. While I use a 33S at my office (I need RPN, and don´t want to risk or wear out my older machines), I would add I also use v.41 and Free42 as day-to-day calculators. I think both deserve the title of "calculators" in this context. ▼
Post: #114
05-25-2007, 04:21 AM
Hi Andres.
Post: #115
05-24-2007, 12:43 AM
Name: Miki Mihajlovic Where: Calgary, Canada, N51 07 47.0 W114 09 08.4 Job: Petroleum Engineer Age: 46 Calcs: 41s, Voyagers, Classics, Curtas Hobbies: Wasting time and money
Edited: 24 May 2007, 12:43 a.m.
Post: #116
05-27-2007, 07:14 AM
Good Morning! Name: Larry Corrado Location: Manitowoc, Wisconsin USA (on the western shore of Lake Michigan) Age: 64 Number of HP's: 26 Other calculators: about 100 TIs, other electronics; Curta II (from my sports car rallying days), misc slide rules, abaci, Napier's bones, calculatoria Occupation: retired professor: physics, computer science My first HP was an HP-25 in 1977, which I used virtually daily until I retired in 2002. It was then that I found a dusty HP-22 in a secondhand store, cleaned it up, and began collecting calculators.
Best regards to all, ▼
Post: #117
05-27-2007, 10:57 AM
Hi, I live here 50°45'5.54"N, 4° 7'33.93"E and am a Finance Director. I'm 39 years old. I use a 41CX on a daily basis for number crunching. I alos use my brains for simple add/substract numbers on the screen as it takes less time to calculate mentally than loosing the line you were to type the numbers. Cheers !
Edited: 27 May 2007, 10:59 a.m. |
