At 04:42 PM 10/23/01 -0400, you wrote:

>I still have the two HP-16C's I bought in 1982 - one for home and one for
>work.  They are definitely the best programmer's calculators I've ever seen
>although if somebody would make one that provided IEEE 754 operations, I'd
>be willing to part with them.

There was a program you could enter into the things that would do the
conversion to IEE 754. But you probably know that. In fact, it might have
been in the manual.

>I don't like on-screen calculators simply because they require taking focus
>off the editor/simulator/debugger/emulator window.

My masterful solution to that is to buy a huge 24" monitor at some point (the
extra 3" will solve all my problems), but for now, I have to agree.
Thanks for the comments, Mike

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