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March 1st 05, 06:30 AM

barfed the following on Mon, Feb 28 2005 2:22 pm

wrote:
mumbled around bites of a hoagie on Sun, Feb 27 2005
7:44 pm
and followed his usual nastygram trolling with this:

I could do complex quantity calculations on my little
AMERICAN-made HP-25 and HP-67 pocket calculators
(made in HP's old plant in Oregon) and can still do them
on the Singapore-constructed HP 32S II (but designed by
HP) I have now.

It was made in Indonesia Sweetums. Get SOMETHING right at least
onece
in awhile WILLYA?

shrug

Of course it is fabricated in Indonesia. That's molded into the
back of the HP 32S II case. :-)

End of.

NO WAY. :-)

You got caught, not me.

1. It doesn't matter WHERE a calculator is made as long as it works
and produces accurate results.

2. The original HP calculator works were in a separate division in
Corvalis, Oregon. [HP was the first to come out with a
scientific
pocket size calculator] Corvalis was also the site of the HP
Programmable Calculator Program Library; HP closed that down
in reorganizing or something, before they concentrated on
desktop computers. They had some good, handy programs with
the 67/97 mag strips. [you might have seen my name in their
listings...:-) ]

3. You or anyone else can buy a Model 33 pocket calculator on-line
at the HP store; Model 32 has been discontinued but there's
still
support for it.

answers? :-)

You got caught in simple entrapment. :-)

Nah, *you* trapped yerself Sweetums.

You screwed up.

Only in expecting Rev. Jimmy Who to come charging in on that
country of fabrication. :-)

I didn't expect Kellie to know which way was where. After all,
those
"all WW2 jeeps had 24 VDC batteries" is something you never
really said, right? Except you said it and it took the longest time
for you to admit it. :-) Then there was the famous "26 Patents!"
claim when you only had ONE and were the co-inventor, not the
sole inventor. You eventually tried to squirm out of that by
mumbling
"foreign patent filings" to account for 25 out of those 26. :-)

You are trying to make a Big Molehill out of a pinch of dirt
(relatively
speaking) and NONE of that is relevant. Country of fabrication or
of
origin makes no never mind if a calculating device WORKS.

Now, on WORKING with a calculator, can you do complex number
arithmetic on your HP 32S? [presuming you have one, that is, which
hasn't been verified yet] I can do it on mine, no problem. It's
easy.
So easy, I don't need some big PC program or Java script to do
simple algebra solutions.

Now, MathCad is a nice package. It's also overpriced, wayyyy
overpriced. Much the same as Adobe soaks customers with their
softwares. If you don't have references to look up some common
formulas (or don't know how), MathCad has some free program
applications for common solutions, all nicely canned and ready
to go. Beyond those, though, most MathCad users are rather
in the dark without the "script" to follow. With a calculator such
as an HP 33 (under $60) anyone can plug in their own common
programs plus constants held separately (if desired), all remaining
intact even when the thing is turned off.

But, you keep trying to build that molehill on "where something
was made!" That's downright stupid, sparky. :-)

Kellie, I don't think you've got much put together on this whole
exchange. It isn't enough to make you an "authority," much
less "qualified." Go over to your raddio and Work DX On HF
With CW. I'm sure you can do that. :-)

Good luck with that one now...

Best regards,