[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Geoffrey]

JK wrote:
> Alex LeDonne wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2007 1:56 PM, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> --And to be on Linux: Am I one of the few users of 'bc' left?
>>>
>>> What a powerful tool, especially when doing weird math.
>>>
>>> apt-get install bc
>>> bc
>>> 128^128
>>>
>>> Is a good example of why it's useful. Lots of display room. :)
>>
>>
>>
>> And to make a neat little bow, there's also dc which brings RPN/stack
>> based calculations to a similar environment...
>>
>> aledonne at rumba:~> dc
>> 128
>> 128
>> ^
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>>
>> I'm loving this thread!
>>
>> My father is an engineer; I got a slide rule (new) when I was in grade
>> school, but I already had calculators. It's packed in a box
>> somewhere... gotta find that thing. I stumbled into an amazing
>> collection of relatively modern HP calcs (all LCD, no LED), and I have
>> a number of cool Sharp and Casio calcs as well. No TIs... mostly
>> through coincidence, I think.
> 
> I learned to program on a TI-58 back in 1978 or so, and was
> hooked from then on :-)

1976 for me.  It was a TI something, but can't recall which one it was.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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