Justin Goeres Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 I submitted a picture of myself to Dork Yearbook and they posted it. Anyone have pictures of themselves that attest to their geek cred? Quote Link to comment
jaegen Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Dude, slap on some dorky glasses and that would be me as a kid. Almost the exact same setup (though I never had the disk drive melt a table cloth). Jaegen Quote Link to comment
Mark Yedinak Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 I don't have a picture but my kids like to give me crap about having an engraved name plat eon the back of my HP 48G calculator. I do get some payback now though because my oldest will be attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology this fall. They are home of the "Fightin' Engineers". Their campus isn't exactly a geek free zone. Quote Link to comment
Darren Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Mark Yedinak @ Apr 20 2009, 05:26 PM) I don't have a picture but my kids like to give me crap about having an engraved name plate on the back of my HP 48G calculator. Awesome! I had an engraved name plate on my 48GX! I still contend the 48G series was the best graphing scientific calculator ever made (always bugged me that TI-85 was the standard in my high school). A few months back I reluctantly sold my 48GX, since I haven't used it since undergrad college. I sold it in 2008 for as much as I bought it for back in 1993! -D Oh, and in case anybody wants to start a calculator debate (snicker), I contend that the HP 32SII (which I still own) is the best non-graphing scientific calculator ever made. 384 bytes of user memory ftw! Quote Link to comment
ASTDan Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Darren @ Apr 20 2009, 11:56 PM) I still contend the 48G series was the best graphing scientific calculator ever made (always bugged me that TI-85 was the standard in my high school). I agree! Still use my HP. Once you get used to it there is no going back. Quote Link to comment
Kevin Payne Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 To continue the calculator thread hijack, Sadly I'm no-longer in possession of functioning HP calculator as my 11C has died, but I do use an emulation of a 15C that I got from The Museum of HP Calculators Quote Link to comment
Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Kevin Payne @ Apr 21 2009, 04:33 AM) To continue the calculator thread hijack, Sadly I'm no-longer in possession of functioning HP calculator as my 11C has died, but I do use an emulation of a 15C that I got from http://www.hpmuseum.org/' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">The Museum of HP Calculators I have my own museum of calculators that includes a slide rule (with slider and original instructions!) and what I concider the oldest "Pocket Calculator" since that is what its label says. It is a pocket book titled "Pocket Calculator" filled with tables of sums and products. Need to multiply two numbers?, look up the two numbers and adjust the decimal place. Ben Quote Link to comment
TobyD Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Darren @ Apr 20 2009, 08:56 PM) Awesome! I had an engraved name plate on my 48GX! I still contend the 48G series was the best graphing scientific calculator ever made (always bugged me that TI-85 was the standard in my high school). A few months back I reluctantly sold my 48GX, since I haven't used it since undergrad college. I sold it in 2008 for as much as I bought it for back in 1993! I could have written the exact same post (except I sold mine in 2007 for more than I paid for it in 1993). The GX's are apparently still in high demand among land surveyors because they have some custom software that runs on them. Somewhere there exists a video of me and a friend at a high-school pep assembly holding our 48GX's up to the microphone so the entire school can hear how we programmed the schools fight song into our calculators. It was a big hit...to our reputations. I wrote a note sequencer and my friend entered the song in a note,duration format. Quote Link to comment
Darren Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (TobyD @ Apr 21 2009, 10:05 AM) It was a big hit...to our reputations. That's hilarious. Man, this is so cool that there's HP calculator zealots here. I guess it goes with the territory, though...you guys all have impeccable taste in programming language, so it only makes sense that you'd all like the best calculators too. -D Quote Link to comment
gmart Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Darren @ Apr 21 2009, 10:17 AM) That's hilarious. Man, this is so cool that there's HP calculator zealots here. I guess it goes with the territory, though...you guys all have impeccable taste in programming language, so it only makes sense that you'd all like the best calculators too. -D I am proud to admit that I bucked the geek train and refused to use an HP calculator in college. I had a Casio FX-6300G (http://www.rskey.org/detail.asp?manufacturer=Casio&model=fx-6300G). Quote Link to comment
TobyD Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (gmart @ Apr 21 2009, 09:01 AM) I am proud to admit that I bucked the geek train and refused to use an HP calculator in college. I had a Casio FX-6300G (http://www.rskey.org/detail.asp?manufacturer=Casio&model=fx-6300G). I think I'd be more embarrassed about that than proud. Quote Link to comment
Darren Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (gmart @ Apr 21 2009, 11:01 AM) I had a Casio FX-6300G I'm pretty sure the most advanced feature on that calculator is that you can type in "5318008" and turn it upside down. -D Quote Link to comment
crossrulz Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (TobyD @ Apr 21 2009, 11:05 AM) Somewhere there exists a video of me and a friend at a high-school pep assembly holding our 48GX's up to the microphone so the entire school can hear how we programmed the schools fight song into our calculators. It was a big hit...to our reputations. I wrote a note sequencer and my friend entered the song in a note,duration format. :worship: And here people thought I was the big geek in high school when I programed my TI-82 to use unreal numbers. Quote Link to comment
TobyD Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Darren @ Apr 21 2009, 09:26 AM) I'm pretty sure the most advanced feature on that calculator is that you can type in "5318008" and turn it upside down. That's awesome! I had forgotten about that "feature". Quote Link to comment
Gabi1 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 the FX6300G was actually already a pretty advanced calculating machine. i can guess your young age from it! It was also pretty sleek for its time. I got myself a Sharp, EL9300 with added memory and an equation solver. still use it sometimes, and have some cool programs still in there... Quote Link to comment
davesav Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Anyone else still have an HP-35 (they came out in 1972)? Mine still works, although the on/off switch is flaky and, of course the rechargable ni-cad batteries don't hold a charge anymore. I used it up until about 10 years ago when I got my HP-48G. Quote Link to comment
PJM_labview Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 I still have mine with the original box (a bit battered though) and all the documentations that came with it. Additionally I have 2 extensions card in it (32 and 128k). If I were to sell it I seriously doubt I would make money. I bough it in France and it was very expensive at the time. Oh, and I also still have a C64 (sadly no longer functioning, although I believe the floppy drive is still working). PJM Quote Link to comment
crelf Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Apr 20 2009, 02:50 PM) I submitted a picture of myself... And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between a geek and a dork. QUOTE (gmart @ Apr 21 2009, 12:01 PM) I am proud to admit that I bucked the geek train and refused to use an HP calculator in college. I'm with you gmart - I had a Casio when I was at uni, but my major was Physics and we were expected to do all the math in our heads I've still got it, and use it in the office all the time: Oh yeah! ...although I'm not sure what an unnatural display would look like. Quote Link to comment
PJM_labview Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 21 2009, 11:27 AM) ...although I'm not sure what an unnatural display would look like. I think that would be a mirror... PJM Quote Link to comment
crelf Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (PJM_labview @ Apr 21 2009, 02:40 PM) I think that would be a mirror... Wow! You need to put me on your "I-owe-crelf-a-beer-at-NI-Week" for that one! (anything for a free beer ) Quote Link to comment
Norm Kirchner Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Of all the 1% of 1% of people on this earth who are pilots, I'm probably 1% of those that has actually used the whiz-wheel as a general purpose calculator. Think slide rule but wrapped around in a circle. Setup a ratio and look for the value you want to multiply by and look above it (or below it based on perspective) and you have your answer (w/ some decimal shifting). Also flip it over and you can do trig with the wind speed angle correction insert. Heck, it's so smart it's not even a calculator.... it's a computer Quote Link to comment
gmart Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (Darren @ Apr 21 2009, 11:26 AM) I'm pretty sure the most advanced feature on that calculator is that you can type in "5318008" and turn it upside down.-D I was engineering student. That feature never worked for me . QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 21 2009, 01:27 PM) And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between a geek and a dork. I'm with you gmart - I had a Casio when I was at uni, but my major was Physics and we were expected to do all the math in our heads I've still got it, and use it in the office all the time: Oh yeah! ...although I'm not sure what an unnatural display would look like. I think I have calculator envy :thumbup: . Down with reverse Polish notation! Quote Link to comment
PJM_labview Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 21 2009, 12:14 PM) Wow! You need to put me on your "I-owe-crelf-a-beer-at-NI-Week" for that one! (anything for a free beer ) Done. PJM Quote Link to comment
ahlers01 Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 ZITAT(Kevin Payne @ Apr 21 2009, 09:33 AM) To continue the calculator thread hijack, Sadly I'm no-longer in possession of functioning HP calculator as my 11C has died, but I do use an emulation of a 15C that I got from The Museum of HP Calculators If you have a PDA, you might be interested in this nice emulation... I use it on my HP iPAQ, so I don't have to unlearn RPN... Quote Link to comment
AnalogKid2DigitalMan Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Justin: That picture applies to me also, but I think I was a bit older. My Sharp EL-5500 II "Scientifi Computer" got me through college and I still use it today. Amazing what useful information you could store as REM statements, funny how handy those 'remarks' came in for tests http://www.rskey.org/detail.asp?manufactur...model=EL-5500II -AK2DM Quote Link to comment
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