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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old HP-15C Calculator Again—For $120

HP-15C calculator
HP calculators just never die! I still have a HP-12C, and a HP-41CV, which both work perfectly well. Yes, you’d think that calculators dead with cellphones around, but if you are regularly calculating numbers it is often easier to still use a dedicated calculator.

There are apparently still enough calculator devotees for HP to resurrect a model that’s been kicking around for over 40 years as a “Collector’s Edition,” complete with a price tag that might have you doing a double take.

First released back in 1982, the HP-15C debuted when HP was still calling itself Hewlett-Packard. And they made really good quality calculators back then. Some even went into space as a backup to assist with critical calculations.

There is a lot of nostalgia around older HP calculators today still.

See https://gizmodo.com/hp-15c-scientific-calculator-collectors-edition-price-r-1850464801
#Blog, #calculator, #HP, #HP15C, #retro, #technology

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diane_a@diasp.org
𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒

" the Brother laser printer everyone else has. It’s cheap, reliable, and the toner lasts a long time. Get a Brother laser printer, he said, and basically never think about your printer again. You know what part of Nilay’s post sounded really nice? This part right here:

It has been connected to our Wi-Fi for like six years straight, and I have never replaced the toner. It prints Amazon return labels from my phone without complaining, and it does not feel like the CEO of Inkjet Supply and Hostage Situations Incorporated is waiting to mug me or enable #DRM at the slightest provocation.

I, on the other hand, spent a couple dozen hours between September 2021 and February 2022 trying to defeat the region lock on my #HP printer so I could go back to not thinking about it."

https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why

#USA

How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps (printer companies hate this!)

Don’t you “incompatible cartridges” me, you horrible machine.

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raschmi@pod.geraspora.de
(((Tousled on Tour)))

#Rainer träumt …

… von einem einfachen #Tintenstrahldrucker,

welcher Folgendes kann:

  • #DinA4 Seiten, farbig ausdrucken.
  • #Patronen, von jedem Anbieter nutzen
  • #mich mittels led informieren wenn etwas nicht stimmt
  • #Linuxtreiber in der Größe von max 142kb nutzen

Was er nicht können muss, oder auch soll:

#Brother #Canon #Epson #HP usw

Ich finde, da könnte die EU mal was machen!

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bliter@diaspora-fr.org
Bliter Underground 🇫🇷 ☠ ♫ ☯ ☮ ♽

#RECOIL - #Linux

#picture #image #viewer of picture image #formats from #classic #computers.

#XnView MP #plugin
imgxn

#GIMP plugin
imgg

#GNOME thumbnails
imgt

#Amiga, #Amstrad CPC, #Apple II, #Atari 8-bit/Portfolio/ST/TT/Falcon, #BBC #Micro, #Commodore VIC-20/64/16/116/Plus4/128, #Electronika BK, FM Towns, #HP 48, #Macintosh 128K, #MSX, #NEC PC-80/88/98, #Oric, #Psion Series 3, #SAM Coupe, #Sharp X68000, #Tandy 1000, #Timex 2048, #TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, #ZX81 and #ZX Spectrum computers.

http://recoil.sourceforge.net/linux.html

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canoodle@nerdpol.ch
SilouettE

GNU Linux (Debian) on very very old hardware (~20 Years) old hp compaq NX 7010 notebook laptop

  • this notebook was premium when released aprox. 2003
  • it still looks with those LEDs and mic and speaker mini-jacks at the front (it even has a wifi hardware switch on the front (blue LED)
  • the screen and speakers are excellent
  • the CPU und 512MB of RAM and a IDE harddisk (that can not be easily upgraded to SATA) are of course… very very sloooooooooooooooow, but as can be seen: thanks to 32Bit i386 Debian the LATEST firefox is running on this 20 year old device
  • this is the time, when modularity would have been nice, swap out the mainboard for a newer one, off you go another 20 years

how to setup GNU Linux on this old hardware?

two options: (as booting from USB does not really work with computers that old)

  • hook up to internet via LAN
  • burn a 32Bit i386 Debian to CD-R or
  • try to setup like this

or:

https://dwaves.de/2021/12/10/gnu-linux-debian-11-bullseye-example-for-https-enabled-etc-apt-sources-list-including-contrib-and-non-free/

  • what is REMARKABLE, that the https://xfce.org/ Desktop ONLY takes about 250MBytes of RAM! NICE WORK! 🙂
  • instead of running the latest firefox (which is really not recommended with this kind of old calculators) use terminal based text based lynx browser instead 🙂
    • while not being able to display pictures (?) it lynx browser does it’s job nicely to retreave text based answers on text based search engine queries
    • again: great job 🙂

PS: background story: the demise of compaq

(it does not do much, but it still exists… as a name)

“Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to a 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the second company after Columbia Data Products[1] to legally reverse engineer the IBM Personal Computer.[2][3] It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems during the 1990s before being overtaken by HP in 2001.[4] Struggling to keep up in the price wars against Dell, as well as with a risky acquisition of DEC,[5] Compaq was acquired for US$25 billion by HP in 2002.[6][7] The Compaq brand remained in use by HP for lower-end systems until 2013 when it was discontinued.[8] The brand is licensed to third parties for use on electronics in Brazil and India. ” (Wiki)

(Elon) “He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but decided instead to pursue a business career, co-founding the web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.” (no wonder they went BROKE X-D)

“The same year, Musk co-founded online bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal. The company was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.” (Wiki)

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #gnu-linux #debian #hp #compaq

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/05/06/gnu-linux-debian-on-very-very-old-hardware-20-years-old-hp-compaq-nx-7010-notebook-laptop/

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