[COFF] HP16C Re: [TUHS] Re: forth on early unix

[Tomasz Rola via COFF]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 07:33:58AM +0200, Tomasz Rola via COFF wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 05:57:54PM -0700, Larry McVoy via COFF wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> If you want calculator, you may try your luck with Swiss Micros:
[...]

But OTOH, after a while, I think that since I never owned HP
calculator (I owned a simple programmable of SE-Asia make, which had
no loops/jumps, i.e. no Turing completeness and I bought me certain
Russian model, just to see if I can repair it and have some fun, and
it is Turing complete but not repaired yet) = so I have no
nostalgia. I guess I would be much better off if I just installed me a
gforth onto this Android smartphone and that would be it, for me at
least.

The only thing I would detest in this second case is no on/off switch
and if it still had the switch, then about a minute of boot time
rather than instant Forth prompt. And I would need to recharge it on a
daily basis... Because this is what smartphone is.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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