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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:58:47 -0400 Organization: None Lines: 28 Message-ID: <utp83i$c5vq$4@dont-email.me> References: <uso2en$184pn$1@solani.org> <ug4vui1sog06gsn7r2dep8t32pg539pnc9@4ax.com> <usq48p$dl57$1@dont-email.me> <17bc1de93bb4055f$981$3331982$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <usr82n$19trd$4@solani.org> <ut4t4o$32464$1@dont-email.me> <65f600a1$0$8233$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <utcpgl$10gjc$1@dont-email.me> <uteb9m$1bjsl$2@dont-email.me> <dopmvihbiuf7p5u52lr02tjjf8b4pogbdn@4ax.com> <utk7j8$309po$1@dont-email.me> <utk8f7$30e7n$3@dont-email.me> <utkhn3$32kac$4@dont-email.me> <utl262$36lna$2@dont-email.me> <l66v5rFe9t7U11@mid.individual.net> <utm34s$3h4ds$4@dont-email.me> <utmhpp$3k6u5$7@dont-email.me> <l68pp1Foi1bU7@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:59:30 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="aee499f110845a23424a36b92b1eaf78"; logging-data="399354"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+KjIluDZwlgfzCiW/WeSGq" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fnO/BzV//ZWq1f7s+tuZ6W717dM= X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA X-Slrn: Why use anything else? X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions Bytes: 2607 rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:26:33 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > >> Then I got a no-name scientific calculator. Then a Sinclair calculator >> kit. >> Later a fancy TI with gold trim and lettering. Then an HP-32. > > I never had a TI but I still have a HP-16C. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-16C > > That was fun to leave lying around in hex mode. If the RPN didn't get > somebody trying to figure out how much everyone should kick in for the > pizza order the hex math did. Heh heh. I left out that I had a TI-58/59 or somesuch, the only with little programming cards. Used it a bit for a simple game (guessing numbers, can't remember the name of the game, not enough fame). -- The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"