Collecting successes

[Palmer O. Hanson, Jr.]

On a recent trip to Florida I purchased a working HP-45 with an 82002 charger for three dollars. That made a real improvement in my collection since my only other HP-45 had missing segments in the display and an intermittent charger connector.

I also purchased Casio S-1 for a dollar. It's not listed in the Flamm book. It seems to work well but I have been unable to figure out what the switch with the following six positions does:

6 4 3 2 1 0 ADD(2)

Can anyone help?

[Eric Smith]

My first guess would have been that the switch would set the number of decimal places in displayed results, but I imagine you would have already figured that out if that was the actual function.

[Martin Pinckney]

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My first guess would have been that the switch would set the number of decimal places in displayed results...

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Many desk calculators worked that way. The "ADD(2)" position allowed you to key in the currency amount without actually typing the decimal, for speed in doing currency calcs. For instance, $ 10.99 would just be entered 1099, and as soon as you hit any operator key, it automatically put in the two decimal places.