HP 41CX Calculator 30 Years On - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This is just a random collection of impressions about fabled Hewlett Packard's calculator HP-41C, CV, CX etc. Many great engineering feats had been achieved owing to this little machine. Amongst other things it was used on-board of the Space Shuttle to for navigation.
I entered engineering school in 1980 and this was the premium calculator. I couldn't afford it then. Many of us freshmen were using the much less capable and affordable TI-58 Programmable - until the keys would bounce and repeat.
Thank you for this video.
I had - and still have the lesser HP 15C ( also with RPN) which had just come out as I started university. Those calculators were were indispensable for engineering students back in the 1980s: the ability to do complex numbers and switch back and forth to polar form effortlessly was such a time saver, as was the ability to do matrix operations. The shortcoming was the inability to do binary and hex and it wasn't worthwhile to buy a second calculator (16C) for that, although I do remember making a simple binary to decimal and back program. These days all of that is so much easier with Octave/Matlab that I rarely do anything other than simple calculations with the 15C.
The click is effectively perfect and make this calculator something special....
Mate, 30 some years ago (circa 1983), I was studying electrical engineering-in Burma. Back then, we had one IBM S/360 and one DEC PDP-11/70 in the country-imagine that! None of us engineering students could afford an electronic calculator so, for fairness, our school mandated we all used the Aristo 0968 Studio slide rule. Oh, how I loved that slide rule.... I still have it. My friends and I salivated over the HP calculators, naturally. You certainly were fortunate to have had the HP-41CX. Fullnut, halfnut, what does it matter. Had we met you in a dark ally, we'd gladly have relieved you of that "heavy" machine. :) Love the video. Let's keep the HP-41 alive! (PS-I just got the SwissMicros DM41X; not quite the HP-41CX, but ya know....)
Yo tengo esa calculadora, con ella hice cosas magnificas, como mi programa para resolver sistema de ecuaciones de n x n, claro que mas de 4 variables seria una locura por el tiempo que tardaria en resolver el problema.
Amo esta maquina, funciona perfectamente aun despues de 33 años, tengo el lector de tarjetas magneticas y el modulo MATH 1, que es una maravila.
La compre en el año 83 a US 300 y me costo un mundo pagarla, pero con ella aprobe todos los calculos y fisicas.
Lejos la mejor calculadora creada hasta ahora.
Aun me veo en la facultad luciendo todo un galan con mi calculadora colgando en su envase color mostaza de mi cinturon...un NERD, pero feliz
PD el nombre de mi maquina es Cleopatra...jaja
Yo no llegé a tenerla, demasido cara... Pero si que recuerdo manejar la de un compañero de mi primer trabajo.¿ sabes si es posible disponer de los manuales de uso y programación ? .. Mejor en archivo. Sino en papel.
Yo tengo la 41 CV pero ya no funciona, el boton de encendido es el problema, ¿sabrás de casualidad donde las reparan en México?
Hay una empresa en la colonia agrícola oriental, en la ciudad de méxico, que se especializa en reparar calculadoras como esa, buscalá en mercado libre.Saludos
Amigo buenas tardes ¿Sabes como diferenciar una HP41cx de la C y CV?,
3 years, whaoo! Still waiting for part 2!
Is there a part 2? If so, I couldn't find it. (Puzzled look)
Sorry, Part #2 was coming for some time. I'll do it eventually.
Thank you! ;)