Re: HP11C emulators?

krw wrote:
In article <YwBdj.988$pA7.697@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, sci.electronics.design, notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
krw wrote:
In article <cwgdj.924$pA7.350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, sci.electronics.design, notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Hello Folks,

Happened again. Bent over to solder something at a client, the trusty HP11C slipped out the shirt pocket and hit the tile floor really hard. This time the asterisk blinked and gave me a scare since you can't buy these calculators anymore.

So, is there a good emulator for the HP11C? I found one here but it's missing important stuff such as SCI and ENG display of entries and results:
Not an 11C emulator (they exist but I didn't much care for them), but XCALC is an excellent (free) RPN calculator.

Yes, I'll chekc out xcalc.


http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/

I can find lots of HP48 emulators, usually free/shareware, but I got so used to ye olde 11C.
Did you do a web search? There are emulators that use the original HP microcode for the 11/12/16 and a bunch of others.
Did a web search and found some but all were lacking ENG notation. That's really important, especially when tired. Too easy to miss a decimal point.

XCALC has ENG notation (SCI, FIX, and BIN too, but no BinPt).

The HP35 has been resurrected as the 35s and has, I think, all the functions you want. I just bought new batteries for my HP45 (and a carrier for AAAs), but at $60 I might spring for a 35 and keep the 45 in the place of honor next to my VersaLog. ;-)

I really need (better) binary functions though. Anyone know of a good calculator with binary fixed point arithmetic? That's one shortcoming of XCALC (no binary point). I'd even spring for a PDA if there were a *good* calculator for it. I paid $400 (1973 $$) for a '45, so a couple hundred in '07 should be easy to come up with. ;-)

AFAIK PDAs don't have stellar battery life. That's the most important parameter to me with all things portable. The HP11C is the secret hero in that domain. It ran 15 (!) years on the first set. Only my wife's alarm clock that she got from our ultrasound company beats that. Over 20 years on the first battery and still humming.

Should be several hours, no? My old WorkPad was certainly good for one work day.


But that's not good enough. You can leave the HP11C on all day, weeks, months. I never had that one go blank on me because of battery exhaustion. When the asterisk flashes you can still complete a whole business trip without a mad dash to the supermarket. And good luck finding a new battery for the PDA in the boonies when it decides that it has had enough charge-discharge cycles.


BTW if someone else sees that asterisk in the lower left corner: It is the low battery indicator and after a fall you may have to clean the batteries, clean the contacts or adjust the contacts. Sometimes giving the batteries a twirl fixes it.
That would have been good to know, if someone hadn't "liberated" my 11C.

Sad. I don't really understand people who do that.

I think one of my Fluke 77s followed it.


:-(

In my travel bag there is a Harborfreight Cheapo. No tears if that gets "liberated".

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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