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Re: Calculators
From: Dan Allen
Date: 1999 Aug 30, 10:58 AM
From: Dan Allen
Date: 1999 Aug 30, 10:58 AM
Get an HP-48G+ or the new HP-49G. They are very programmable and will suit
your needs well.
A Palm Pilot is not great because you cannot program it easily. You need a
good programmable calculator if you want to do celestial navigation well.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From Millard Kirk [mailto:mkirk@MARSHALL.EDU]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 6:05 AM
To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
Subject: Calculators
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.
Still...............
Learning the Hard Way!!
Millard Kirk KB8YQO | mailto:mkirk@marshall.edu
116 Lewis Ave | http://webpages.marshall.edu/~mkirk/
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