TJ,
"Plugging in the trusty HP12-C"
I use a HP11-C which was the replacement for my old HP45. I still have the 45 and it is probably fixable but I left the nicads in too long and the battery connectors corroded. The 45 was a replacement for a HP35 which was snatched from my office in about 1975. I bought the 35 back in 1970 or 1971 when a 35 cost $350. Before that I had maybe a TI25, that was a real clunker. I still have my old Pickett Log-Log slide rule from college days, as that was before the calculator era, and may need it again some day if the power goes out.
You should keep an eye on your battery terminals as even though they are gold flashed this can erode away in time. Got to preserve the trusty ole HP as they are irreplaceable. I do notice a fair number for sale on Ebay, and have been thinking about buying a standby.
Nothing works like Reverse Polish notation. Back in the 70's there was another calculator besides HP that used it, an English made one, I think. Really, without my HP doing taxes would be much more difficult. And the HP keypad was just so precise, no double entries or screw ups. The old ones, the 35 and 45 had an even better keypad than the liquid crystal display models, but they had the somewhat grainy red LED readout and were a bit power hungry.
I have never understood why that at least some RPN caculator is not still on the market.
The radio show guy is not so foolish. He has been saying "buy gold" since 1997. And he says buy it now. He just doesn't think it is going to the moon and thinks silver could double.
On the gold, nobody really know how much there is. Seems to me that if there is 90,000 tons of gold in mints, gold pools and other public and semi public places, there had probably been a lot more than that mined. After all, the stuff erodes away, if carried around in the pocket or used for jewelry or used to cover domes of government buildings, ect.
Slagle
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