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Re: Calculators
From: Mark F
Date: 1999 Aug 30, 7:38 AM
From: Mark F
Date: 1999 Aug 30, 7:38 AM
In a message dated 8/30/99 9:04:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mkirk@MARSHALL.EDU writes: > It is back to school time and those adds on calculators from Office Depot > and Office Max stirs my interest to get a new one. The rub is keeping up > with the specs. The Texas Instruments calculators start with TI 73 through > TI 92 Plus and Hewlett Packard HP 32 II, HP 48G, HP 48G+, HP 48GX, and HP > 49G. > I want just a little more calculator than I really need. I want a > calculator that can program all the sailing programs, or most of them. > On this list I have seen mention of both the TI 82 and the HP 32 as models > of preference for navigation. As one knows every year it seem manufactures > come out with a newer model or an improved one. Will the newer models > handle the same programs as the HP 32 and TI 82. Any suggestion. I'd be more tempted to get a Palm Pilot, if there were decent celestial programs for it. I haven't researched this well enough to know of any, so some may exist. Mark
