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Aldo22:
A pocket calculator. The first one after school...  ;)
It can do quite a lot. I'm learning.

cte:

--- Quote from: Aldo22 on January 21, 2025, 07:04:31 pm ---A pocket calculator. The first one after school...  ;)
It can do quite a lot. I'm learning.

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I have this one. Good choice!  :) I was used to this Sharp calculator, but I really like the simple user interface of the TI, where you just tap a button multiple times to get the function you want. In comparison, with all that double and triple assigned buttons, the Sharp calculator looks overly complex to me to use.

And you can simply use complex math when you need it, without the need to switch to a complex mode explicitly.

neverendingstudent:
Just got a new (to me) Agilent 34461a bench meter.  Got a sweet deal for it on eBay, right at the $600 mark for the meter in factory original box with most of the original accessories + GPIB to USB adapter (not a cheap accessory by itself), original cal cert... beautiful.

I plug it in and boot it, let it and my DMMCheck Plus r8 warm up, then take comparative measurements on DC +5V to see those beautiful accurate digits...

My new 34461a is off my TWO MILLIVOLTS!!!  My original HP bench 34401a is spot on at 5.0000V (instantly and with no warm up), my lesser Instek GDM-8255A is off by 100uV at 4.9999V (after 20 minutes of warm up, less accurate before that), but my just-arrived 34461a?  4.99800V!!!!!  WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE MY OVERLY ENTITLED DISAPPOINTMENT.  May as well throw it in Dave's dumpster so he can feel my same excitement, and then my same disappointment.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---where you just tap a button multiple times to get the function you want
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Is that really better than having a shift key (or more!)? I've not used one of those but in instances where something has needed multiple presses I always seem to come unstuck but accidentally double-pressing. If whatever it is (typically a game where you click the mouse on a tile) wraps around, I can end up going round several times because on the next loop I can easily go one past where I wanted to be.

Aldo22:

--- Quote from: cte on January 21, 2025, 10:16:26 pm ---I have this one. Good choice!  :)

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Yes, I like this calculator.
Once you've understood the operating philosophy, it's quite intuitive to use.
Almost everything makes sense and it is convenient (e.g. “Equation Recall”, “Constant memory” etc.)

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