Manuals
May 7, 2022 11:57:55 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Our company bought a printing version of the HP-67 desktop calculator when they first came out and they cost as much as a new car back then.
Not a new car. It came out in 1976 priced at $800. A cheap new car about $3000. An old engineer gave me one around 2005.
May 7, 2022 12:13:49 #
Bridges wrote:
That is why David Busch is a multi-millionaire selling his camera guides. I know I have put quite a few coins in his pocket having bought at least five of his manuals. Who wants to download 100+ pages and not have them bound like in a book. A few people may do this, hole punch them and end up with a 1" binder, but I think the number of people doing this would be small.
The guides of my digital cameras are hundreds of pages. What I’ve done is have them printed (8.5 X 11) at Kinko’s/Fedex for about $20. They also spiral bind them which enables easy viewing.
May 7, 2022 12:30:10 #
Fotoserj wrote:
Don’t forget today they have to tell you not to swallow the phone, 40 years ago we would have known not to ingest it
Yup, I remember about 15 years ago when (I lived in Wales), I was at a pub eating a bag of peanuts. Reading the back of the packet was a message, "Warning, may contain nuts"! I actually think the world has gone nuts!
May 7, 2022 12:39:08 #
I remember as a youngster in school, most of our parents could not afford to buy us those very expensive calculators, (we used slide rules), and in fact we were not allowed to even use them. By the end of high school, (about 6 years later), I had a calculator on my Casio wristwatch!
May 7, 2022 13:01:08 #
KindaSpikey wrote:
I remember as a youngster in school, most of our parents could not afford to buy us those very expensive calculators, (we used slide rules), and in fact we were not allowed to even use them. By the end of high school, (about 6 years later), I had a calculator on my Casio wristwatch!
I still have my K&E Versalog and my Pickett yellow metal one stuck away in a drawer somewhere, (and I know how to use every scale).
May 7, 2022 13:01:15 #
tradio wrote:
I remember getting the family calculator. It only did the four basic functions and had the red seven segment numerals. I forget what that's called??? Binary coded decimal??
I think it ran on two AA batteries or maybe a nine volt (transistor) battery.
I think it ran on two AA batteries or maybe a nine volt (transistor) battery.
Maybe 1973: my first HP four function calculator as you described was approx 8in long, 2in wide and 1in high. Cost around 100 bucks and that was a good deal😳
May 7, 2022 14:25:18 #
Dannj wrote:
Maybe 1973: my first HP four function calculator as you described was approx 8in long, 2in wide and 1in high. Cost around 100 bucks and that was a good deal😳
Did HP ever make a 4 function calculator? Perhaps today but not in the 70's.
May 7, 2022 15:51:03 #
I still have both my TI BA-II, and my HP-12C, that I used pre-computer days. Both still work great, considering that my Samsung smart phone is roughly the same size, and it contains the HP-12C emulator app!
The TI I first had, had the worst keypad. I finally called TI, they asked me to send it back, and they replaced it with a new one that had a much better keypad. Seems TI issued a "silent recall" about a year after introduction.
The TI I first had, had the worst keypad. I finally called TI, they asked me to send it back, and they replaced it with a new one that had a much better keypad. Seems TI issued a "silent recall" about a year after introduction.
May 7, 2022 16:34:03 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Did HP ever make a 4 function calculator? Perhaps today but not in the 70's.
This is it, my mistake. It’s TI, not HP.
May 7, 2022 18:08:41 #
May 7, 2022 18:31:41 #
Dannj wrote:
This is it, my mistake. It’s TI, not HP.
I have one of those too and it's still working.
May 7, 2022 20:39:46 #
May 7, 2022 20:44:29 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I have one of those too and it's still working.
I was working as an internal auditor at a major bank and thought this would help streamline my work only to find out that it was unacceptable because it didn’t produce a detailed tape.😂
May 8, 2022 02:33:15 #
When I was working I had digital copies of the owner and service manual for laptops as old as the C400 upu through the E7440. They cam in handy when something broke and you needed hardware support.
May 8, 2022 09:11:49 #
My camera manual is approx 250 pages. I have a copy on my laptop and a copy on a thumb drive. Like most manuals it tells you where the buttons/dials are but doesn’t tell you what will happen when you use them, ie, what effect will it have on the picture. You still need a good photography course or book to help out.
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