@joeo10 My favorite calculators are the old 1980s HP models that use RP logic, because I'm That Guy. :-)
@thedan84 Surely akin to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. :-)
// @matigo
@matigo The GDR1 was tricky to implement too, and ultimately experienced a fatal error. I'm sure adding a P just makes things more complicated.2 ;-)
German Democratic Republic
German Democratic People's Republic?
@peemee About 15 years ago (can't believe it's been that long), I was browsing in the graduate student library in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara, and pulled a book off the shelf. When I opened it up, I found an 80-column Hollerith card that someone had stuck in there as a bookmark. Since at the time I was kind of the old guy among the grad students, I'm pretty sure I was the only one who could identify what it was. :-)
// @gtwilson @tewha
@tewha I thought it was the height of awesomeness when the school computer lab got a TRS-80 Model III, with two floppy drives and a built-in monochrome monitor. The kids today have no idea.
// @gtwilson
@gtwilson A friend of mine got one of those from his parents, who were filthy stinking rich (I went to a high school where I was the poor kid).
// @tewha
@gtwilson Thinks back to the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model Is at his high school
// @tewha
@tewha You can always tell a Real Engineer™, because they can't stop themselves from figuring out a better/more precise/more secure way of doing something regardless of the instructions they've been given. And usually, they overbuild stuff.
@tewha Engineers build anything they damn well please. :-)
(Yeah, I'm the son of an engineer…)
OK, this is funny. Crude, but funny.