[COFF] [TUHS] Re: forth on early unix

[Larry McVoy via COFF]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 10:40:12AM +1000, Dave Horsfall via COFF wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2025, Larry McVoy via COFF wrote:
> 
> > I say this as a guy who loved the reverse polish HP calculators, but my, 
> > oh my, that reads as gibberish to me today.  Probably because I have an 
> > old tired boomer brain.
> 
> I still treasure my olde HP-42S.

I still remember going to a store where they sold an HP-16c, the sales
guy hurled it at the wall of the store.  Like as hard as he could.
And it worked and it did hex and octal and binary, yeah, bought that.

These days I can find an app that does that online when I want the memories.
It's not the same as touching those keys, the sales guy told me the print
on the keys is not on top, it goes all the way through the keys so they 
never wear out.

Those were the days, my friend, wwe thought they'd never end, but then we
out sourced and things went down hill.  I don't know where you buy stuff
like what the old HP did.
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