Hello fellow retro and vintage technology enthusiasts! I'm an avid supporter of not letting old (or obsolete) technology die - I hate that we have an e-waste industry! In an ideal world, we would still be using mini-disc :-) I collect/hoard, but will try not to show too much of my hoarding!
But alas, times move on and (you?) and I probably both love keeping the old machinery running! I make videos about old tech, new tech that helps me repair old tech, and mixed in, just new tech!
One day when I have the space, my home will be open for people to come and see my collections, spreading awareness of old tech is also important - it could spark the interest in the hobby in somebody that was born way after the technology was used!
Lol. The Casio fx6300g is still worse. That thing is literally just one of their programmable scientific calculators with extra pixels grafted onto the screen. The graph area is like, ~30x30 _pixels._ Seriously one of Casio's worst products. I have one of the Chinese clones. While I absolutely LOVE my clone, it's still a bad calculator. Any student that had to use one of these would of hated it. My clone gets used as a "programmers challenge", with stuff like a CRC-8 checksum algorithm and mandelbrot set demo written for it. Really fun programming on it! But for any math? No thank you! The only thing the official calculator would have going for it is better build quality.
@@martinmeyer2008 Yeah it's... Pretty bad. I'm guessing the people at Casio must've been drunk when they came up with the idea. Maybe it was a cost thing, like the Commodore VIC 20.
The worst graphing calculator in the world is Casio FX 85 ex and reasons are here 1. Thing can't do graphs 2. can't go above 9.999999999999E99 3. It bugs sometimes 4. Most of the graphing functions on it are missing 5. Doesn't flow in the dark 6. Gives me wrong answers like Graphing calculators: 6.08979e102 Casio FX 85 ex: MATH ERROR 7. REALLY WEAK 8. Can't take notes 9. They advertised it as scientific calculator 10. Graphing is not there Hp prime: graph, sin(number) Graphing calculators: graph, sin(number) Casio FX 85 ex: sin(number)
Hi thanks for the video good info I'm looking at this soldering station. How good are the tweezerers ? Have u used the 10mm ? Have u been able to take larger ics considering its only 40w per side I'm just wondering that's not powerful enough to remove ics
Hiya, I haven't gone up to 10mm, the largest tweezers I have now are 6mm. They take small IC's off with no problem. For me, anything bigger - I'd switch to my hot air station. I suspect you are correct and 10mm might be pushing it, though if they make them, they must have a use! :-)
I just ordered this Knipex tool but it is available in two references with the same number, one reference beeing named "SB" which I have no clue what that means. I emailed Knipex for more info needed. I would need it for what I believe are "DuPont" connectors used for R/C servoes connectors.
Thanks for the video, quite long but that's not a problem. I have a signalink I want to set up with my FT-847 and I thought the jumper module was something complicated and time-consuming to install, this video showed me exactly how to hook the module up and it took barely no time at all. 73, DE K0NH
Thats a shame, did they never work, or just break over time? I still have a bit of noise on my one channel, but otherwise its working well....hope you manage to sort yours as well somehow!
Seems much worse than the competition, which explains why it didnt sell as well. Sharp still make graphing calculators but I’ve not seen anyone look at them.
I need to check more thoroughly, but I don't think they make anything in the same range as the HP Prime or the top end TI's....I'm not even sure if they have one with a colour screen?
I had the SHARP EL-9200 in the 90' and I used it during all my Economics University for Math, Statistics and Accounting exams. I am so grateful to this calculator! It has a lovely and simple programming basic where I could develop some advanced scripts. The SHARP EL-9200 and the Spectrum 48k are the best and more precious machines that I have ever had <3
Its nice to hear that some people liked this...I'm sorry that my video puts a negative spin on things! Much like yourself, I love the older tech, and literally switch between calculators in my collection regularly, never sitting with one for a long time...except my HP which stays out for my real job :-)
@@martinmeyer2008 no worries, I totally agree with you, it was really slow :) and your tests and comparitions are brilliant. In my experience it has not so much memory too so every script program I was writing and saving, I was obliged to delete all the others to save memory. But anyway, if you have a bit of time, I advice you to check the programming basic of this calculator. Are many years I was looking for a video or even better an emulator (it doesn't exists :(((( ) of the Sharp EL-9200 and finally you reviewed it and I am happy. I have a big nostalgia and good remembering of it. Thanks!
That hp sure looks nice, i thought calculatora didnt evolve much over the years, my TI 84 working great for years and i bought it on the flea market for like $2
You could argue that all they've added is gimmicks....though a colour screen is nice! I'm currently doing a calculator restricted ham radio course, so back to a standard Casio for me till the new year. I'm very envious when I see what US guys get at thrift stores and the likes, we don't get anything like that here in the UK....have to rely on ebayers being truthful about what they sell, which is a video in itself!
Sorry, nope, these are all 12V tips and the 24V tips are not backwards compatible. Nobody has the full pin-put, its now got a lot more complicated as the newest WX-series has an accelerometer in the handle instead of a reed switch, and there's an EPROM doing temp control etc, so the comms via the cable are probably digital now and not analogue....somebody would need to probe them and reverse engineer them to get the full picture.
I had this at school and I was first kid to have a graphic calculator. Of course shortly after everyone else got the fancier Texas Instruments. This got me through my high school, college and even my first few jobs.
Nice! What country? We were always limited by calculator rules, so I often had a "standard" one for school exams, or just slipped by better one by, and then had the fancier one for day-to-day school etc. But, like to so many things back then, South Africa had a very limited range....I don't think I even knew these existed back in the day!
@@martinmeyer2008 UK. It was early enough before it was common place and rules had to be implemented during exam like doing a reset in front of the examiners
The tower that didn't work has an Asus P4P-800E mobo with onboard IEEE 1394 (Firewire 400) and the machine that did work has a no-name brand PCI fire-wire card with an Agere FW323 ver 1.0 chipset, which is IEEE 1394A, but still Firewire 400...so both should technically work. I think I probably need to find the Asus drivers for the P4P-800E Motherboard and not use windows drivers...that may fix the issue! Or if you have any advice, that would be most welcome :-)
Very nice calculators, both the 556G and the 5120. I purchased a new EL-506TS, two line display, a lot of functions, but the keys feel a little too soft and are at times hard to read (the function ones) - the contrast between the markings and the black front plate of the calculator is not that good. Overall, it feels rather cheep compared to the old ones. PS: I'd be very pleased to get your HP Prime, if the offer is still available.
You're in the raffle :-) Was waiting for 100 likes, but that may take a while, so may just end it at say the end of June. I agree on the new calculators, across all the brands the quality isn't what it used to be, that's why I like to keep the old ones alive :-)
SHIFT+BREAK runs the !BOOT file on the disk file system. NOT ROM! Because you have some sort of SD card instead of a real 5.25 inch floppy its loading off the SD but it thinks its a floppy disk!
Thank you! I thought the SD card would be an emulated floppy, but I'm not at all used to the BBC file system so googled it, looks like I may have got some bad information. Always happy to learn!
Between this video and my Sharp EL-556G fix video, the first video to hit 100 likes - I will be donating a HP Prime to a random person who has left a comment, so competition time!
On reviewing this, I see that the menu's take a short while (< 1 second) to clear, so the screen update is not super fast. I wonder if that is possibly the reason for the delay in calculation answers, it maybe is is doing them instantly, but the delay is getting them onto the screen? If anybody knows, please let me know :-)
Hello i just found you channel trough calculator cture and you have some interesting stuff here instant subscribe also is the prime giveaway still going or no?
Truthfully, I don't think I had any money back then and being in South Africa, I'm not sure how available it was....we had one small computer store in the area, and most items were ordered in and not on display. But agreed, it is an odd thing to have no knowledge of! :-)
Don't forget to comment if you want to get my HP Prime - I'll donate to somebody randomly when this video reaches 100 likes, so like and drop me a comment if you'd like a super graphing calculator!
The spray paint used here was Oyster White by Rustoleum, RAL code 1013. I will have to track down the code for the "other" beige as this is very obviously too light after reviewing things.
Doh!! Such an idiot...I got the mic cable, no sound comes out of the mic socket! (Maybe a setting to enable that?), So I did had to run a single mono 3.5mm audio cable from my radio to the "line in" of the SignaLink...what a rookie mistake! After I got that sorted I was all set for FT8...I'll get the cable for rear in the future and the jumper board for that!
