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So today DankPods did a calculator thing, and I just did an MP3 player thing? What is life anymore.
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
Fun fact, Texas Instruments also makes targeting pods, missiles, and bombs for the military
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
When in doubt, just "A M O R T"
sounds a lot like "abort" which would make sense
That HP calculator is a finance calculator. I found one laying around my house and used it in my college finance classes. Huge learning curve, but definitely a fun thing to fuck around with
@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
The HP12C is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator. Instead of taking the calculation function between inputs (2 + 2) it takes the function after the inputs (2 2 +). So to do 2 + 2 you have to type 2 then enter then 2 then +
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
"I'm not a maths guy, I studied jazz" resonates hard
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
Those tri-color Bic pens were literally game changing for me as a kid. I grilled my parents for months, begging them to explain how such a obviously magical device worked. We had to take apart one of them so I'd finally shut up. Lol, but then they accidentally broke it, so I kept pestering them until they got me another one. Half a year spent antagonizing my parents. XD
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!😂
My dad is a financial advisor and his HP12C comes with him literally everywhere. It can genuinely do some pretty amazing stuff. His old one died after YEARS and he went out and found one of the same model to replace it because of how much he uses that thing
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 love how graphing calculators can play games in alot of cases. Also the solar cells are usually fake. If they're real theyre usually decent calculators
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
He's gonna blow a gasket for sure when he'll learn that old TI calculators can play chiptune music through the 2.5mm jack port.
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: kzhead.info/sun/ntCdYK9laX-dgo0/bejne.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.
4:44 that defeated "AMORT" killed me.
I had the biggest goddamn smile on my face from those nixie tubes, omg I love the singer so much
I just watched 11 minutes of calculators. I am convinced Wade could review pennies and I'd still be riveted.
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
From IPods to Fakepods to headphones to… Calculator’s?? HE HAS REACHED THE BEST CONTENT POSSIBLE!!
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‽
The HP calculator was a financial calculator. They actually use the same button style set up for calculators used in examinations. The "amort" button was for calculating amortization, and the machine was able to adjust payments for "time value of money" principles used in finance! That's actually a really cool find!!
I so badly want to see Techmoan, LGR, and Dankpods in the same room, presenting some wonderful nugget together.
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.
The HP where he "amorted" too hard is a financial calculator. We still used ones a lot like that (not even much smaller) in my undergrad finance classes in 2020. They must have been huge convinces when they came out because manually doing an amortization or calculating NPV by hand takes ages and is very prone to mistakes.
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
If you want to turn this channel into some shit like LGR or techmoan, I'm so in for it. Whatever gets you excited, I want to hear about it. Don't ever feel like you can't do something on here just cause it's not "your brand" or whatever.
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 😌👌
In 8:14 the stuff is german so lemme translate it for you: -Glaskolben mit Neonfüllung Glasstube with Neon-filling -Kathoden Cathodes -Anoden Anodes Hope you understand it :)
8:02 Ah yes, Nixie choobes
I literally couldn't believe when you showed up the HP calculator. I have the EXACT same model even with the leather cover, and died laughing at you struggling to use it, you looked exactly like me the first time I used lol
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
When you pulled out that HP 12C, it reminded me of how my dad's used one of those bad boys since 1989 and changed the batteries once in it. He received a 4-week course from his employer on how to use the damn thing too. Anything he does remotely related to money or math, that 12C comes out. Also, AMORT is amortization.
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 !
“Cuts through the office air like a… like a big brick really” - 2:14 oh man that made me choke on my coffee.
For the Zeny, I'd recommend soaking the battery contacts in hydrogen peroxide to further get rid of corrosion. Also, pretty sure the display is an early LED, not vacuum tube based. But the Friden with the nixie tubes.... that's absolutely beautiful, seeing the refresh of the tubes as you type in the digits.... Great video!
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)
4:16 the Haich Pea uses Reverse Polish Notation. You don't do 5 + 5 =, you do 5 5 +. That's because you put two numbers in the stack, and then the 'add' function says, 'Take the last two numbers in the stack off, add them together, and put that atop the stack'. There is no enter key - only an entry key, to push a number to the stack. That way, you can do three values with one command.
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!
DankPods 1 year ago: Deep diving into the specifics of elite ~5000$ headphones DankPods now: C A L C U L A T O R
he's come a long way
6:10 I do the same thing with the corroded battery terminals in my Wii remotes. Works like a charm(most of the time).
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
The pure joy at resurrecting the Zeny absolutely made my day. You’re a legend!
"I'm not a maths guy, I studied jazz" that statement feels somewhat paradoxical
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
That HP is honestly a fantastic calculator. They still make and sell the HP12C, and I got one as a gift when I went to college for business management. It's fantastic for people working with money, interest rates, net present value, etc.
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.
watching dank bring the zenny to climax was more entertaining then it should have been
8:40 I was waiting for Steve Jobs "It has a handle" meme :D
I love seeing people struggle with reverse polish notation. It warms my heart when I can pick up older calculators for cheap because people think they're broken.
2:45 Our physics teacher literally still uses one of these to calculate stuff... But I gotta say it looks somewhat classy when he pulls out his calculator from the sleek leather(?) case
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.
even in a calculator video, dankpods still somehow manages to squeeze at least one pair of headphones in
I lovin this diversity of content, like he’s still doing the same thing, laughing at nuggets appreciating the good ones! Keep going my Australian brother
LGR x Dankpods is the collab i never knew i needed! Ngl lgr is one of my go-to binge channels so i now really would just love to have you two working together on some really manky nuggs lol granted it’d be a very long shipping process
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!
Dank is playing the long game. He waited until 1M subscribers to become the largest calculator review channel.
I love how he says, "Modern computer companies." Then shows a calculator by Commodore. LOL
4:23 Press 7 to *BEG*
Or 9 to *M e m*
man with your personality it doesn't matter what you put on here as long as you can keep it entertaining as you always do!! i love your channel mate!
I like the subtle detail of the music stopping when the Zenny died. Then it resumed once you resuscitated it. Well done, my guy!
OMG such memories seeing you playing with that HP 12C. My father used to have one (I'm sure he still using it) but I never understand how it worked. He sweared that it was a waaaaayyy better design than normal calculators. I trully enjoyed this video, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
"RᵊCᵊL-CᵊL!!!" 😂
Didn't expect some ancient calculators to be this entertaining! In fact, I own one myself, handheld (!) calculator made in austria in 1922. It's a super dense, all brass steampunky (all mechanical, no AAs) nugget. It's called Comptator
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: kzhead.info/sun/lcuqp8Waa6mXeok/bejne.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
The zeny one was an emotional rollercoaster Everything from plot setup, the middle and the conclusion
I own a Ti Datamath, still in great functional form. Really cool to see the screen in slow motion because the numbers actually scroll around as it calculates, and you can watch the logic flow all the way down the chain of ICs until it solves. It has some red triple dot LED vac tubes set up as 7 segment displays, and it is just so gorgeous to look at.
Amort! Amort! I was in business school from 2019 to 2021 and we had to use finance calculators just like that (a cheaper plastic version, but effectively the same thing). Why not just use Excel, like you would in real life, you ask? Because you can't have your computer with you during an exam. Yeah. That sure went into a drawer the day after the final exam, never to emerge again.
"It's all clint's fault from LGR" is the reasoning behind most of my irresponsible vintage purchases
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.
3:00 My dad has one of those! That's an RPN calculator. Basically you type in numbers, and then do an operation for it. So if you want to do 3+2, you hit 3, then enter, then 2, then plus. That sounds odd but it's so that you can do systems of equations a bit easier.
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.)
My mom had that HP calculator! I remember trying to figure out how to use it when I was like... 10 or so when I was with her at work. She was an HVAC engineer, and I swear she (or one of her co-workers) told me I couldn't figure it out because it was for engineers only. I think they were just trying to get me to stop using it... To be fair, my kid frustration was probably really annoying.
Hey DankPods, I've been a big fan since two years ago and you've inspired me to finally buy an iPod Classic along with some replacement parts to restore it! :)
I've done what he did to the Zeny with the PKCells before. There's nothing like fixing corrosion by scratching the contacts with some AAAs.
I was going to say you are effectively just sanding the corosion off, quite a good idea.
Dankpods trying to figure out rpn for two minutes and still failing has to be my new favorite moment from this channel.
"Amort! Amort!" Hahahaha 🤣🤣
That defeated "AMORT" at the end.
@@carlost856 I amorted too much 😰
Amort!
07:23 my favorite line so far
Whoever the patron "Oatmeal ?" is deserves an award
The HP is like an “adding machine” instead of the normal style of calculator you are used to. Lots of businesses still use machines for counting money and such and it can be very annoying at first if you’ve never used one.
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
People today: "Oh no a $1000 phone that does so much, that's too much!" People back then: "Oh wow a $4000 calculator, that only does that, this is great!
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?
Hey mate found your vids 3 days ago and I'm hooked...keep it love..Greetings from Jamaica 🇯🇲
My dad uses that HP 12C every day. It's a finance calculator. Not really done for simple stuff as much as it is for more complex financial calculations. It's the only calculator he uses, and is apparently universally loved by the finance industry, and he owns like 4 of them.
Fun fact, the model of SX-70 you've got there uses a goddamn _SONAR_ to autofocus. Mine still works perfectly to this day, they're such amazing machines. If you really want to see some magic though, take a look at the Polaroid Land cameras that came before it, like the 100-400 series. The film develops in your armpit. I'm not joking.
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.
I saw someone do a teardown of one of those Burroughs machines a while back and yeah, as you guessed, they're generally pretty tough to fix. Based on the handle not working, its likely one of the gears inside has been knocked askew and jammed everything up, probably due to it being dropped in transit at some point. As an aside, since they still sell the HP12C, the manual is on their website. Like one of the other comments says, it uses RPN and I believe to clear it, you hold '-' as you turn it on, then let go.
Interesting that they still sell the 12C.
that calculator uses RCL method which means that you place operands into your buffer then press the operator. basically if you wanted to do 2+3, you would press 2 then enter then 3 then plus: first number, enter, second number, operator(+,-,*,/,sin,cos,^,%...) the xy button switches the first number in buffer and the current one displaying. look up how to use an hp35s and it will be more clear as it shows the buffer row
rpn*
I love this lol. More please! I need Dankpods vids applying to many other things. Drills, record players, TV's. go full Techmoan! Your personality is so distinguishable.
I absolutely love the old VFD displays, they're so clear, especially when compared to the new black on grey-green ones 😑
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
Duuuude that HP12C brings me back. So HP calcs used this wonky input logic called RPN, where you basically use the enter button to add numbers to a "stack" of memory, and then press operators to pull numbers from the stack, perform the operation, and push the result back onto the stack. So to do 1+1, you'd do (1)(enter)(1)(+). It seems backwards at first but once you get used to it, it becomes super useful when working with complex equations because it effectively eliminates the need for parentheses. My dad had a 16C back in the day, which was the programmer variant, but it used the same input logic. He taught me to use it as a wee child and from there I used almost exclusively RPN calcs. I got a WP34s (basically a fan made hp scientific calculator) that got me through university, especially statistics and physics.
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!
The HP calculator is a marketing calculator and if you see on one of the rows there is a litte "clear" and brackets going to a bunch of buttons, you click all those buttons at the same time to clear. They did it like that to stop accidental clearing
This video proves a very funny point. I'd watch your videos no matter what theyre about. I usually dont even care about headphones or nuggets, but your commentary is so funny that I'd legitimately watch you review just about anything
Dankies truly is a modern alchemist, able to bring back to life the oldest of machinery with his mere touch
My friends and I in junior high called them cockulators. Now as a 26 year old woman, I am ashamed to say I still call them that by force of habit.
Need something to calm down a bit went to bed late and suddenly had my heart rate jump through the roof, while trying to sleep.. Love your videos man keep it up!
the HP is an RPN format calculator. a lot of programmers like them. you have to enter the arguments, then specify the operation. to do 2+2, press 2, enter, the 2, then press the plus button.
y'know texas instruments made a new calculater with state-of-the-art features such as: color solving equations and... a trackpad. truly ahead of its time.
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.
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Seeing an HP 12C literally gave me a flashback so hard I had to call my sister to confirm that we had one kicking about as a kid lmao.
Love that old aesthetic!! When I was a little kid I was given a bubble LED wristwatch (Which has tiny LEDs with built in lenses over each digit so you can actually see them), you had to push a button to see what time it was and I loved that thing. I was very sad when I lost that little nugget, there was something so fascinating about those tiny glowing digits.
Loved seeing the LGR and Techmoan shoutout! Always enjoy seeing channels I watch interconnect in these ways
One of your most entertaining videos to date. The genuine excitement when that battery trick worked was fantastic lol. Also Nixie tubes are just plain cool as hell, my jaw dropped when ya whipped that bad boy out.
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
I cannot say how much a new dankpods video makes my day 10000x better.
really enjoy the videos that aren't specifically Apple. Or music related, do more techy stuff like this, love it!
3:54 “I amorted too much” XD
I recognize the 12C, my dad used to have one. Based on his profession, and the Amort button (short for amortization) I would be pushed to believe the 12C is a mortgage calculator.
@@phs125 He worked in the mortgage department at several banks, so, he probably got it as an anniversary gift...
New technique discovered: Finaegling rub the batteries somewhat akin to rubbing a genie lamp for additional nuggeteering.
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.
I've just got to say thank you!!! For months now my remote for my TV hasn't been working,I've gone through everything I could think of .... Untill I watched your video and you got that nugget working , I did the same thinking what's the worst that could happen and ..... IT WORKED!!!
Keep that tech coming my Buddy from across the world. I love how u talk about things that i would not normally care about. Love ur vids.
I freakin' love vintage calculators. They were my first venture into vintage electronics back in 2004. The king of my calculator collection is an Adler model 814 Desktop unit from 1973. I have a bunch of early pocket calculators as well inclding a TI 2500 Datamath which is considered to be one of the first "pocket" calculator back in the early 70's.
Mine are the Melcor 400 and the Monromatic adding machine, it's an absolute tank
Oh man, the potential dream team... Dank and LGR, reviewing 80's tech... A man can dream...
As a Computer Science student, I think that calculator was doing postfix notation where you were trying to use infix. The pain is real.
So I found your channel today because of your Vynl video and man you make amazing concent haha
Awesome. Love seeing manky old tech doing manky old tech things, especially when it involves Nixie tubes. Those Friden calculators in particular have a real following.
Put the Singer up permanently and make it a counter for your Patrions! These tube thingies look so dope. Greetings from Germany
You almost hypnotised me with those patreons
The Nixie Tubes sold me. I'm not kidding I have "Nixie Tubes" in my KZhead browser at this very second because I was looking them up and geeking out about them. I was not expecting a guest appearance, this is great.
I will say, using an actual calculator (especially for my chemistry class) is way easier than using a phone app.
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
The genuine shock when you resurrected the Zeny was priceless! I’m still giggling like a little school girl
In my 20 plus years of IT experience, I have seen and heard of some crazy techniques to revive equipment, but this is the first battery CPR procedure I have seen executed successfully. Kudos.
oh wow i'd love if you did a full video on old analog cameras
After some searching the first not-so-good-old "nugget" is called "Class 5" and it is possible that it was made in 1915 (or some years later, feel free to correct me), which is impressive.
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
1:55 that's not a nugget that's whole chicken
with those nixies, probably still worth that 4 grand, those tubes fetch a lot to collectors
The Zeny did get that (unintentionally large) equation right! It was 49160.79! Well, I'm not surprised, it is doing it's literal purpose. Also I loved that technique of twisting the batteries around to sort of, scrape the corrosion off? Wow.