Calculator Odds and Ends

Jake Schwartz

An “Odd”: Updated PPC Archive DVD

UpdatesMade toThe HPCCDatafilearea

First 6 volumes received the “J.W. treatment”

Program index of scannable HP-41 barcode files

A Datafile comprehensive index started with the same issue coverage

Indexed5 waysWith 980EntriesSo far

An “End”: The WP 34S and WP 31SCalculators and Printed Manuals

• WP 34S Firmware by Walter Bonin, Paul Dale and Marcus von Cube

• WP 31S Firmware by Sanjeev VisvanathaAnd Jonathan Cameron

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With the recently-added “YDON” Y-register display

Comparison of Major Features

WP 34S WP 31S

Programmable Y N4 or 8-level RPN Stack Y YDouble Precision Mode off/on Y NY Display On/Off Y YMemory Registers (global) 112 23Flags (global) 112 NFull UNDO only RCL L YStat/Prob with 14 stat registers Y YFraction Mode Y YComplex Operations Y NMatrix and Vector Math Y NPhysical Constants 50 >50Conversions 80 >80Base Arithmetic Y NSpecial ALPHA Characters Y N

The Original2012 WP 34SPrintedOwner’s Manual

The Printed Manuals

370 pp, ~$51.00 to U.S. 150pp, ~$35.00 to U.S.

Book orders have been handled via the HP Museum Forum in the “Not quite HP Calculators – but related” section.

Walter is taking orders for and printing batches of twenty.

A 34S Beginner’s User Guide (V3.1 firmware) also is available at www.conehead.org as a free download

Written byCiaran J. Brady

Keep your fingers crossed for the 43S

Checkhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/wp43s/?source=directoryFor the latest firmware news