Oh hi lgr

I love you Clint

Just checked your channel and your most recent video is still the Canon mouseculator. Is the MP3 vid going to be up soon?

@@deanchur Yep, tomorrow morning will be quite the nugget 👍

@@LGR nice, excited to see that

So that's where the Texas part of the name comes in

That's not very fun :/

cool

And hella good DACs as well on their Burr-Brown series

Yep they made the AGM-88 HARM Anti-radar missile

sounds a lot like "abort" which would make sense

@SCRWD 《HD》 it's english if you are asking.

@SCRWD 《HD》 Cry harder.

@SCRWD 《HD》 You smell like Bart Simpson.

@SCRWD 《HD》 amort

@SCRWD 《HD》 amort

And the yellow f button enables use of the yellow functions written above some of the buttons, the blue g the lower blue functions. A lot of calculators still use the same functionality. STO(re) and R(e)Ca(L)l still remains too. Could be labeled M, MR, M+ and M- instead, for memory. You can save a value/calculation and recall later, to add to something you calculated independent for example.

reverse polish notation was the main reason, why I bought TI NCAS instead of HP. It was really difficult at university even with NCAS, I didnt need to increase fun factor with RPN :D

Came here to say what he did ^. You can still buy calculators that accept RPN and RPL (Reverse polish lisp).

Once you get used to RPN, it’s so nice. You don’t have to sweat parentheses because you can just punch in operations in the order they ought to happen in. Fun fact: the HP 12c is still sold to this day, I saw one in a Best Buy yesterday and it looks exactly the same. Back when my da did an accounting degree, this was THE calculator for accounting.

i use popos btw

Jazz folk need to be able to count past 4 though, unlike us normal musicians lol

I’m a maths guy but I want to study jazz as well :p

@@thesillyhatday hey be nice to us normal musicians we also count to 6 sometimes

go get a real job, you hippie!

"I amorted too hard" that resonates harder

I miss that about being a kid. Everything was just magic. Engines just had a hamster inside spinning a wheel and gasoline was his crack!😂

oh, I wanna see that so badly is there videos about that??

@@jackbro655 This video explains the theory behind playing sounds on the ultimate potato music player that is the TI-82 calculator and also plays a recording too: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odKUY65el7PLf4k.html

Saw a friend of mine playing mario on a TI calculator in the middle of an exam. Absolute madlad just there vibing with the blank paper infront of him.

*bass-boosted bit-crunched Scarlet Fire plays*

I remember finishing my SATs early and playing through Doom on one. I still have it because it's convenient for when my phone runs out of charge on long trips. That and the PSP are my entertainment for plane rides. Fuck you Sony I can still run home brews and my old games.

So you're telling me my 99c solar-powered Kmart calculator.. isn't solar powered? 😔

The TIs often have a rudimentary version of basic on them, so you can make your own games on it :)

I have this glorious old radioshack scientific calculator that’s fully solar-as in, you cover the solar cells, it turns off. It’s way older than I am-it was originally my grandfather’s, and he was a nuclear scientist (of the engineering sort). It carried me through high school, my mother through college, and my grandfather from Germany to America.

@@ENCHANTMEN_ or python with the nspires

Linus overclocked and watercooled a proffesional calculator a few years back

Yes, in the engineering world, the HP 12C is still sought after for its ability to do Reverse Polish Notation. Not many calculators can do it anymore. If dank wanted to do 2+2, he should have typed "2,ENTER,2,+" and then he would have seen 4. You have to enter in your numbers first, followed by the operator that you want to apply to them.

I work with investment accounts and even though I’ve never seen a calculator like this, I immediately recognized what it was. Lol. Now I want one.

I thought it was funny to see him get annoyed at not being able to use a "simple" calculator. When I got my first financial calc I was confused as he'll too lol

@@brennanlentz2452 I had a cheap pocket calculator for school in the mid 1970s that used that system - took me 5 minutes to figure it out and use it without a problem. Reading the manual helps Danky boy, instead of smashing stuff with a rock.

@@berekhalfhand4775 Bold of you to assume he'd recieve a manual with such a nugget and read it before throwing it away and probably forget about its existence for another 10 years

I for real didn’t know his name is Wade until right now. Thank you. Also what an Australian name though

I'd watch him review rivets. Imaging how riveting that would be?

Now I'm awaiting a penny review lol

Might as well do currency. There are some cool currencies and some downright nugget ones

@@mikimomo97 *flashbacks to the one and two rupee coins that literally have a symbol of someone holding up one or 2 fingers for the respective coin* the coins are from 2010 if you wanna find a picture of them

DankCalc or CalcPods

the iPod-mod-to-calculator-nugget-showcase pipeline is real

This isn't even his final form.

@@dt08-old Dankulators

More calc‽

It's is one of the 2 allowed calcs for the CFA exam, the other one being Texas Instrument

I remember not long ago, those things were going for quite a heck lot of money. A basic scientific (by basic I mean it does all the roots, sines, cosines and e stuff but no integrals and alikes) was like 1/10 of the price of those financial HPs, and by reputable brands at that, heck, even HP themselves. My 50g can do that financial calculator operation system with the Enter key, it's something I definitely can't get used to (like press number, enter, number, enter, operation = result)

I saw it resembled a scientific calculator 😁😂

i didn't understood a thing you said

wth is an "amort" anyway

That was my same thought, "hey look it's my dad's calculator!". He's a physicist and that HP beats the hell out of the portable slide rules he first learned to use.

You say "amortization" like I'm supposed to know what that means

@@bavarianbanshee Are you serious? Amortization is a word all good Americans use. How else are you supposed to know how much your due on your loan? ...says the commenter that googled a word.

My dad's calculator looks very similar to that one, but it can do one think I betcha yours can't~ You can program it in BASIC~!

My god, my dad also. And he tried to tell me how much more simple it is. For what I remember, you enter one number, ok, a second, ok, then the operation, let's multiply , et voila !

Ashens too!

It'll all devolve into dank screaming and we know it

I can imagine them getting at the funkiest old school audio rig.

I have a newer one that is vertical but otherwise exactly the same. It was so cool seeing someone use one for the first time. I had a class on just using these calculators

@@sand0decker is it the HP 35s by chance because I love that calculator and it’s one of 2 rpn calculators I own the other being the hp prime graphing calculator

i have the HP 15c and i was feeling the same way lol

Still got my HP28S. The RPN concept is easier to for a beginner to grasp when you have a multi-line display. I still use it, but it was handier before Google added conversion functions.

I was internally screaming at the way he was trying to use it. Haha

I mean it already kindof is. Just with a focus on portable audio. And more violence.

They're the best part of the site, only wish there were a lot more of them.

Techmoan is dope. LGR is dope Technology Connection is dope

Legit, I'm right there with you. I wasn't a huge audio nut before, and while I'm definitely closer to being one now, I'm still pretty much a pleb. I just love hearing him yell at nuggets and crack jokes in his lovely voice. He's got an awesome personality, and his excitement is contagious, so I'd pop in to watch regardless of the topic 😌👌

It looks like VFD not LED. You can see the tube around the digit plates.

@@0xbenedikt Could be, I was thinking it was LED since I recently saw a video about these 70's HP LED banks that used small magnifying glasses over the 7 segment displays because they couldn't make the LEDs very big.

@@DavisMakesGames They are a fun display technology too, indeed.

Its a typical 1975-1980's calculator, it's rockin' a VFD for sure. If the display would have been LEDs, the color would have been red since red LEDs were the most efficient at the time (they pretty much still are)

I believe this is the very first thing my parents taught me. Not simple math, not learning how to read, they taught me to rotate the battery(ies) on a tv remote when it doesn't work until it starts working. Works like a charm 100% of the time Edit: i forgot to add something

I has a MK-52 calculator and it's using reverse polish notation. It's don't have "=" button

so you can just do 1 enter 2 enter 3 + instead of 1 + 2 = + 3

*5 Enter 5 Enter +

@@QuantumScratcher 1 [ENTER] 2 [ENTER] 3 [+] [+]

Wow thanks for the knowledge!

Time signatures are just fractions.

You don’t gotta add those fractions doe

im no expert, but im pretty sure jazz doesnt use factorials

@@borger7171 nah mate the time signatures

he's come a long way

I think I had a TI BA II plus.

was required to get one for one of my classes for my finance degree. steep learning curve but ended up using it for assignments, exams, everything. pretty neat but I remember it being expensive as hell. I think I paid $50 or $60 for mine lol

My parents had one of those when I was a kid and I remember never being able to make it work. I do know he was on the right track when doing 5+5+ and got it to spit out 10.

The HP 12 series is legendary. I am an RPN partisan to this day.

Update: I left my previous comment before watching Wade completely fail to realize that RPN is a thing for two whole minutes and it is a delight.

Or 9 to *M e m*

If it ain't broke don't fix it! I hope there's still working things that were made this year that people are using decades in the future.

Cobalt obsolescence go brrr.

Are you sure it's not an HP-15c? The HP-12c lacks trig and log functions, which the HP-15c has (and more!) and they look very similar to the untrained eye. I'd know. I'm a physics teacher who uses one myself 😁 RPN for life.

@@PhysicswithKeith Good point. It probably is a HP-15c but I'll look closer when I see it again. (Makes sense to have trig functions as a physics teacher...)

RPN is a very natural way to do computations if you do them with pen and paper: basically if forces you to do all the intermediate calculations first. For example if you do: (((2+3)x5)-1) x ((2+3)x5), you will do (2+3) first, then result x 5, then result -1, then do the final multiplication. In RPN, you will type : 1. you type 2 3 + , the calc displays 5 2. you type 5 x, the calc displays 25 3. because you noticed that (2+3)x5 is repeated, you save that intermediate result with the save key 4. you type 1 -, the calc displays 24 5. you restore the intermediate result with the restore key and type x and the calc displays the final result 600 The advantage here are 1) you saved a lot of typing, pressing only 10 keys in total instead of 24 with todays's calculators (because you have to type = at the end to perform the calculation, which wasn't necessary on the RPN calcs), 2) you see all the intermediate results , which allows you to verify that you didn't make a mistake whille entering the full calculation. This last point is particularly useful for engineering and science students as when they do that often, they can get a sense of all the orders of magnitude of all the intermediate values and thus spot errors more quickly. That knowledge is lost when you use today's calculators, 3) as said above, that's how computers work internally, so it was easier to design for HP. It also uses far less memory as the calculator only needs to keep in memory the current intermediate result and the stored value instead of the entire calculation. If later in life you get to learn the LISP language, it's based on similar principles. These advantages are why the generation who got used to them still love them.

We need CRD x LGR collab

Must happen!!

LGR and Techmoan are great for just leaving out and chill to.

I love both channels. We need LTT and Louis Rossmann onboard with Wade also. By the way, have you guys tried out TI-BASIC on your graphing calculators? I wrote a blackbody radiation curve program on my TI-84 CE last month, along with a few other physics programs. Pretty fascinating stuff, if you like technology, math and science.

Haha, wait till you see LGR's new video!

It also means you never need parentheses, due to some really cool binary tree stuff

@@sosexyimsexy134 That's nice, but reverse Polish notation calculators are so much more fascinating, don't you agree?

So if you wanna do 28 + 93 how do you enter it in? Because typing 2893+ could also be interpreted as 289+3 for example

@@matiastripaldi406 2 8 Enter 9 3 +.

Reverse Polish notations is a total game changer when you consider it has a register that stores your previous value. Consider the equation ((1+2)*4)/4. You do your own parenthesis in a sense with RPN. You'd so 1 [Enter] 2 [+] for the first parenthesis. That result is then in the register, so to do the next operation, you'd do 4 [*] to get the numerator. Then you'd hit 4 [/], and you'd have your answer. It's very efficient once you understand it. I have used a second hand HP 15C for almost 10 years because once you go to RPN, you never go back. (For anyone wanting a modern RPN calulator, check out SwissMicros. They make modern remakes of these old HPs. Not being paid to say this, just a RPN fanboy.)

I was going to say you are effectively just sanding the corosion off, quite a good idea.

No joke, I have all these people to thank for my discovery of these hobbies and many, many irresponsible late night purchases ever since: LGR: Vintage PC gaming (beyond emulators) 8-bit guy: Kit computers (the ones you solder yourself) Techmoan: Nixie tubes Now Dankpod: ipod modding and headphones Thanks to Dank, I can no longer tolerate those no-name chinese bluetooth earbuds.

22? Mate that's cool

Amazing! I found this video of a guy using it ("The Rapid Computer" channel name is " Jaap Scherphuis"), apparently it was an American product copied and improved in Germany.

The video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mM2hqsSTmd3Fd4U.html

@@FastSloth87 yes, that's pretty much what it looks like! Altough the Comptator seems slightly more refined to me, and my unit is still completely functional. I had no idea it was kind of a knock off :D I didn't remember for sure where it was made so I double checked, and the company was austrian. In fact, it's literally called Rechenmaschinen Werk AUSTRIA. Looks like they had some parts made in germany as well though. I'm also surprised that this was quite an old design at that point. The manual (which I also have!) says 1922 though. EDIT: Looks like it was made by several companies across europe, copying stuff didn't bother them much back then lol

@@michaelmechex Comptometers were very popular back then, there was even formations on how to use it as quickly as possible, mechanicaly it's fairly simple but even when the cash register style of calculators began to take over the market, businesses still used them astheh were still faster. Do keep it well oiled tho, I've seen too many of these beauts jammed up

"Amort! Amort!" Hahahaha 🤣🤣

That defeated "AMORT" at the end.

@@carlost856 I amorted too much 😰

Amort!

he knows. he mentioned it on the after show

I have my grandpa's old Square Shooter. Where you have the hang the camera upside down to get the film to develop. And his old SX-70, with his name and date scratched into the leather.

from what i noticed, its like first its one digit so _ _ _ = _ then first digit 2 _ _ = _ then second digit 2 _ 3 = _ then symbol and it gives result 2 + 3 = 5 idk if thats right or nah

@@aqaridot yes basically! It’s called RPN, and it’s how computers natively think. Calculators that interpret the “normal” way of writing formulae have to do a bunch of extra work reordering things before actually doing the calculation. (Hence the large desktop unit being able to do it but the tiny vintage battery powered unit opting not to.)

Huh, never thought of it that way, interesting

Interesting that they still sell the 12C.

Not a great observation, not only were calculators like that rare and generally around that price point, nowadays we have phones that are $100 and have the same functionalslity.

Another difference is that modern phones are for the masses whereas those older calculators were typically for professionals or businesses.

@@pushingboundariesyt I agree you don't have to go to $1000 on a phone, I myself am rocking a $300 phone that doesn't show it's price that much besides some stutters here and there when I am opening a ton and some slightly less than average cameras... but you definitely do get more features the more you pay, and the main point I was making with my comment is that we are almost spoiled these days with the prices for stuff, when back then people had to settle for so very little for so very much and they were satisfied with that.

@@sosexyimsexy134 no

Yeah but does your iGalaxy Nugget 20 Ultra have a Nixie Tube display?

Vacuum florescent > liquid crystal in my opinion. Of course LCD black on grey panels are much better in sunlight, and use less energy, but who really is using their calculator in direct sunlight (or even an overly well lit room).

"vacuum fluorescent display displays"

@@officialSgtPepperArc360 ATM machine. Sue me

@@mikehall3976 It's all right; people do this all the time.

@@officialSgtPepperArc360 I know right, pretty dumb. Smh my head

Oh, so those calculators used postfix logic in order to do math. Neato.

That's a good point, about not needing parentheses. There's actually a bijection between strings of operators and numbers in RPN, and binary trees of operators and digits, which is a proof that you can represent any expression with RPN without parentheses. I actually design really niche programming languages known as "golfing languages" as a hobby, that try to do tasks with the shortest code possible, and RPN really comes in handy there for that reason (though it's usually just called stack-based or postfix notation for that).

My parents are both chemical engineers and they both still use HP16C’s from the 90s. Complete with leather slide out cases.

RPN isn’t wonky! It’s glorious!

imagine running quake on it

calculater

I run a TI-Nspire CX II CAS. Fun.

@@Chris-xh4mu Reposting from an earlier reply of mine. The HP Prime fully supports Textbook input (and is the default) as well as RPN and absolutely DESTROYS anything TI has ever put out. It even does (basic) 3D modeling. The Prime actually gets shit done. The TI lines are overpriced as fuck.

@@poble spyware terminater

@@phs125 He worked in the mortgage department at several banks, so, he probably got it as an anniversary gift...

Mine are the Melcor 400 and the Monromatic adding machine, it's an absolute tank

That's what she said

@@cgreenfield6655 my jaw dropped when ya whipped that bad boy out. out of context is the best thing ive ever heard

And if someone is wondering why it worked: The friction rubbed a bit of corrosion away, so the contacts were somewhat restored and it sprang to life :)

I’ve been doing that with TV remotes for years.

most default phone apps don't have all the functions anyway

@@tjl2836 they do you just have to turn your phone into landscape and then all the buttons become smushed and a giant pain in the ass to use

@@michealpersicko9531yeah its annoying and it still doesn't have everything like a real scientific or graphing calculator but it still gets through the majority of things you need

Mmm it looks similar, doesnt have the red buttons though so not the one

It's Burroughs's clone of the Comptometer. Tech Tangents has an excellent video showing how to use a Comptometer and some of the history around it