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Did anyone have the HP-16C? I was wondering what it had and if its features are in any of the other calculators?
by protomyth 4y ago
Did anyone have the HP-16C? I was wondering what it had and if its features are in any of the other calculators?
- gt743268 4y agoI have a modern clone, the Swiss Micros DM-16L. Clone-wise, the display is better, the keyboard is worse, the software is emulated and faster. Useful when doing embedded programming, it's great at duplicating the behavior of actual machine instructions. Buttons for things like and, or, xor, not, shift, etc. You set your word size, then poke through calculations and get the same overflow/carry behavior, even with offbeat representations like 7 bit 2's complement. You can put it into a human-compatible fixed point mode to do normal math. It's fine for some things that way, but no exponents or trig or scientific notation, barely more than 4 function really. Many of the newer RPN HP calculators include these functions, however all the computer math things are done with multi-button soft key presses or menu selections instead of dedicated buttons. I also have a TI Programmer. Inferior from a practical point of view, as it has many fewer functions. But it's fun to play with as it has one of those early red LED displays.