Recommend a watch

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Arrrgh! I'd get hit that.

Where's the "enter" key? Shouldn't an HP calculator watch use RPN?

The site says the calculations were algebraic rather than RPN. That "21" function key was for dates in the 21st century though...does that make up for having no "enter"?

When I was working an operating system conversion project for DASD Corp (later Cap Gemini DASD) in 1978, one of the senior consultants had an HP-01. I was green with envy. Pure conspicuous consumption.

I consoled myself that it was not useful for working on storage dumps because it did not have a hexadecimal mode.

For that I used one of these:

(see: http://www.datamath.org/Sci/MAJESTIC/Programmer.htm )

Or in earlier days...


It was possible to get along wiithout either using the tables on a
green card ...more recent examples of which were neither green, nor were they cards.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Well, I bopped over to Sears and ended up with one of these

not bad looking. i can;t do the metal band thing, tho. they tear all the hair out of my wrist. i just get a $20 analog watch with indiglo, a leather band, and a date window. s'all i need. it's usually under my shirt sleeve anyway. they last a year or so, then i crack em and they get water in 'em......maybe someday i'll get a fancy one for dressing up , but it's not a priority.

[xoxoxoBruce]

they tear all the hair out of my wrist.

I have a Speidel twistoflex band I've been moving from watch to watch for 20 years. It's the only metal band I've found that won't rip the hair out.

[richlevy]

Here is a copy of Alice in Wonderland displayed on my FX2008. Thanks for recommending it, Maggie.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Thanks for recommending it, Maggie.

My pleasure...no effort is too great to help reinforce the Geek Imperative:

"What do you mean, 'Why?'? Because we can!"

[wolf]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Here is a copy of Alice in Wonderland displayed on my FX2008.

Did you download that as a doc file, or did you hook up with the free classic books online channel from AvantGo?

(which is where I got my copy of Alice on my T|X, which is why I mention it. AvantGo rocks majorly.)

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by wolf

AvantGo rocks majorly.)

I gave up on AvantGo when it looked like they were starting to either charge for feeds, or do some other mindless marketing move to "monetize" the service.

These days for that sort of thing I use JPluck (distiller) and Plucker (viewer). JPluck (or his non-Java Perl friends) will convert web pages (or parts of or complete sites), text files (such as one might find at Project Gutenberg) or even RSS feeds to the (very compressed) Plucker viewer document format. And you don't need AvantGo to bless it.

A word of caution: JPlucker doesn't do well on very long or complex HTML files sometimes, and may silently truncate them. If you're doing something like all of "Stranger in a Strange Land", check the last line to make sure thes did not happen.

There's also a collection of pre-Plucked public domain works at http://dave.pluckerbooks.com