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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
If I recall correctly, you could even get a tiny printer to plug into the high-end HP's.
RPN is the notation of evil. I know it's easier to process -- just push your operands on the stack and all -- but I want my computing devices to work to make things easier for me, not for me to have to work to make things easier for them.
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I'm afraid I think in RPN now. It's like any other worthwhile skill, like driving a manual transmission, it takes a little work to learn but once you've truly mastered it you see it in a different light.
I have a great deal of difficulty using AES (that's what the entry system for "normal" calculators is called) calculators. I'm constantly loosing the previous operation's results as I mentally expect it to be replicated up the stack as I punch in the next operand.
And as Kacir pointed out, I never have to worry about anyone wanting to borrow my vintage HP41.