Likewise the HP-9845. I was a co-op at General Electric's Wilmington NC nuclear fuels plant in '83 - '84 (think $$$ floating around), and taught myself how to

Likewise the HP-9845. I was a co-op at General Electric's Wilmington NC nuclear fuels plant in '83 - '84 (think $$$ floating around), and taught myself how to program the thing. Over the course of 9 months in 3 month stints, I wrote 10,000s of LOC taking radiological data and generating contour plots of the sampled radioactivity throughout the plant, and sent HPGL plots to this fantastic plotter. All higher level algorithms I coded by hand but the scientific and graphics (2D) libraries were solid. There must have been some, but I don't recall ever spending more than 5 min on a bug, my own, or in the system. A profoundly deep pleasure it was to work on that system. Only ever exceeded by turbo-pascal. This was back in the days where an undergraduate could work alternating quarters and entirely pay for a BS at Georgia Tech, out-of-state. Not all things progress over time. All that said, I will live in C++17++/cmake/emacs till the day I die. Even though cmake is hideous (but does work) and hey what is that glitch in emacs about?