Re: Pi Day Rematch: Apple II vs. HP-41C

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Mar 14, 10:45 pm, datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 10:43 pm, David Schmenk <dschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 14, 8:37 am, datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > A bit of retro fun:http://jerkwerks.com/?p=378
>
> > > Happy Pi Day
>
> > A fun read.  Thanks,
>
> > Dave (owner of many old HP calculators, including an HP-71 w/ Forth
> > and HP-85 w/ Forth)
>
> My MAF Pi program was actually a port of my original base 2^20 HP-71B
> Forth Pi program.  The 71B 640 KHz 20-bit Saturn processor computed
> 1000 digits of Pi in 3825 sec.
>
> Awesome machine that 71B.

Nice.  So many toys to program, such little time.

Dave...