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keenerd on Nov 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The HP-35 Design: A Case Study in Innovation (2011...

> I'd love to hear how they did things in more resource constrained times.

I found this to be very good: http://www.hpmuseum.org/software/soft41.htm

And I've got this book from 1976: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/isbn/0830668535/

It covers several different calculators too.

throwaway7645 on Nov 28, 2017 [–]

Thanks for the gems. It's been awhile since I've been to the HP Museum page. The Circuit Solver example is pretty cool, but that is a lot of keystrokes haha:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/software/41/41elcirc.htm

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