HHC 2009 was held in the Hewlett Packard campus of Fort Collins, just north of Denver, Colorado. The whole state seems to be so clean (free of trash and grime) and decorated with huge mountains that it reminds me of Switzerland. But I digress.
In my oh-so-humble opinion, the talks this year were the best ever. Geoff Quickfall from Canada won the Best Speaker award, which he richly deserved, for his demonstration of how to take apart some classic HP calculators and peripherals, fix them, and put them back together again. He included in the conference Proceedings a chapter from his soon-to-be-published book on that subject. He even included an HP Calculator Repair Kit in everybody's conference packet! A great guy, a great talk, a great presentation. Way to go, Geoff!
HP not only let us use their facilities for the conference, they even paid for the lunches and the Saturday Evening Dinner! Yowza.
I'd love to tell you some of the details that HP revealed to us regarding their plans for calculators, but I can't, because all the attendees signed non-disclosure agreements. Aren't you glad you attended? We all agreed that we'd love to meet in Fort Collins again for HHC 2010.
Richard Nelson's complete conference report will be posted on the HHC 2009 website soon. Jake videotaped the whole conference, and I took over 1000 photos with my new baby, a Nikon D90. You poor unfortunate souls who couldn't attend will therefore soon be able to attend a virtual re-enactment of it.
The speakers and their topix are on the website. See www.hhuc.us for all the HHC websites.
Excellent! I'm sure I wasn't the only one who really wanted to go but was unable. We eagerly await any and all reports (and the new HP machines, whatever they may be).
It sounds as though I missed signing an NDA since I only attended on Sunday :-) Nonetheless it was a great time and it was wonderful to see everyone again and meet some new faces. I reported on the conference at this week's CHIP meeting and look forward to the videos from Jake. The NIST tour was interesting, but the weather was awful!
Brian
On Oct 8, 7:39 am, Joe Horn <joeh...@holyjoe.net> wrote:
> HHC 2009 was held in the Hewlett Packard campus of Fort Collins, just > north of Denver, Colorado. The whole state seems to be so clean (free > of trash and grime) and decorated with huge mountains that it reminds > me of Switzerland. But I digress.
> In my oh-so-humble opinion, the talks this year were the best ever. > Geoff Quickfall from Canada won the Best Speaker award, which he > richly deserved, for his demonstration of how to take apart some > classic HP calculators and peripherals, fix them, and put them back > together again. He included in the conference Proceedings a chapter > from his soon-to-be-published book on that subject. He even included > an HP Calculator Repair Kit in everybody's conference packet! A great > guy, a great talk, a great presentation. Way to go, Geoff!
> HP not only let us use their facilities for the conference, they even > paid for the lunches and the Saturday Evening Dinner! Yowza.
> I'd love to tell you some of the details that HP revealed to us > regarding their plans for calculators, but I can't, because all the > attendees signed non-disclosure agreements. Aren't you glad you > attended? We all agreed that we'd love to meet in Fort Collins again > for HHC 2010.
> Richard Nelson's complete conference report will be posted on the HHC > 2009 website soon. Jake videotaped the whole conference, and I took > over 1000 photos with my new baby, a Nikon D90. You poor unfortunate > souls who couldn't attend will therefore soon be able to attend a > virtual re-enactment of it.
> The speakers and their topix are on the website. Seewww.hhuc.usfor > all the HHC websites.
Wow, Joe is absolutely correct, what a conference. I thought it was the best one yet but my sample size is only two, so I will reserve judgement until I hit another 28 at least!
If you have never been, you should try to make one. Also, I thought there were many more Best Speakers.
Richard Nelsons HPIL display was phenomenal, amazing even diehard HP-41 fans with the plethora of add-ons that occured with the HPIL. There was also a PIL box on display and that along with Egan Fords PIL box talk convinced me to purchase one.
I won't go into a long description as the pictures will be up shortly I am sure.
Suffice to say, thanks to the Committee
Richard Nelson Joseph Horn Jake Swartz Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz Gene Wright
The helpers to the committe need thanking but all their names elude me, so thanks everyone.
I know you signed NDA but could you at least tell if there are any new calculators to succeed the HP50g to be released soon? I had an hp48gs that I lost and I am now planning to buy an HP50g, but I could wait 6 months if a new calculator is to be released in the near term.
On Oct 13, 8:03 am, Radag <zlarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I know you signed NDA but could you at least tell if there are any new > calculators to succeed the HP50g to be released soon? I had an hp48gs > that I lost and I am now planning to buy an HP50g, but I could wait 6 > months if a new calculator is to be released in the near term.
I have been following this group since as long as I can remember. I have even posted in spurts. I can tell you that since the 49G/50G that I am so disappointed in HP I am disgusted with them. I have a shel full of 48G(x)'s put up because the 50G is that bad. I still hate that calculator.
I have always heard great things from the HHC's and almost attended one a few years back when it was in California I think. I would not even for a second get my hopes up that a new calculator is coming because HP doesn't seem to be "that" kind of company anymore.
news:ce66d574-6709-4ce8-a8db-e156a2978c69@v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com... "I have always heard great things from the HHC's and almost attended one a few years back when it was in California I think. I would not even for a second get my hopes up that a new calculator is coming because HP doesn't seem to be "that" kind of company anymore."
I think you're right... the one HHC I attended a couple years back had some nice "potential new calculator model" mock-ups, and I've been told that the such displays had occurred for a number of years, but none of them have ever made it out of HP's labs.
My suspicion is that if Agilent had inherited the calculator division, we would have seen some worthy HP 48/50g successors, but with the "computer" division at the helm, HP will probalby just license designs from other manufacturers and slap their names on it, as they do with their computers.
Still, realizing that these days for any "heavy duty" number crunching most people are just going to whip out a laptop computer anyway, even the old HP 48 series fulfills my "quick calculation" needs. I'd glad that these great classics are still readily and inexpensively available, and I do like the 50g overall, even if it doesn't have quite the same level of mechanical robustness as the earlier models.
>> I have a shelf full of 48G(x)'s put up because >> the 50G is that bad. I still hate that calculator.
Joe Horn:
> I totally agree about the 49G and 49G+,...
Wait a minute -- what was wrong with the 49G?
Just that the key printing wore off?
It turns out that this was actually a Good Thing, because it strengthened memory skills, like the TV game "Concentration," or like gambler "Big Jule" in "Guys & Dolls," for whom dice with the spots rubbed off were no problem at all, because, as he informed Nathan Detroit, "I remember where the spots were" :)
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Big Jule:
Well, I used to be bad when I was a kid, but ever since then I've gone straight, as has been proved by my record: Thirty-three arrests and no convictions!
> Wait a minute -- what was wrong with the 49G? > Just that the key printing wore off? > It turns out that this was actually a Good Thing, > because it strengthened memory skills...
BWAH Hah hah! Two points for your team. :-)
I also hated how hard it was to press those rubbery keys that felt like little dead critters with rigor mortis. And their goofy shape, oftentimes installed upside down (to keep Murphy happy). And the overall "Frozen Hamster Butt" color scheme. And the easy-to-scratch display screen. Other than that, I liked it.
On Nov 11, 10:02 pm, Joe Horn <joeh...@holyjoe.net> wrote:
> > Wait a minute -- what was wrong with the 49G? > > Just that the key printing wore off? > > It turns out that this was actually a Good Thing, > > because it strengthened memory skills...
> BWAH Hah hah! Two points for your team. :-)
> I also hated how hard it was to press those rubbery keys that felt > like little dead critters with rigor mortis. And their goofy shape, > oftentimes installed upside down (to keep Murphy happy). And the > overall "Frozen Hamster Butt" color scheme. And the easy-to-scratch > display screen. Other than that, I liked it.
> -Joe-
Seems like the only thing left to like about those models were the three AAA batteries.
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