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

[datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Mar 14, 10:43 pm, David Schmenk <dschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 8:37 am, datajerk <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.