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About the HPCC Journal

www.hpcc.org

We have received the June-August number of Datafile, the HPCC journal. Edited by Bruce Horrocks, it is a journal made for us. I have mentioned it on previous blogs, but it is filled with interesting information for those in our hobby.

HPCC stands for Handheld and Portable Computer Club. One would have said that the initial two letters had another meaning, since all units being discussed are from Hewlett Packard.

The website url is www.hpcc.org.

The journal is a little booklet, A5-sized (for our american readers, the A-series of paper sizes is the standard in Europe), with 32 pages, devoid of any publicity and full of calculator related information.

There are news about calculators, hints and tips for calculator DIY (there has been a series on repairing the 9800 series of calculators,with detailed instructions and explanations about the inner workings of these machines, articles about programming in both RPN and RPL, a for sale and wanted section (that was empty in this last issue, since it is a very recent addition to the journal), and the story of an HP calculator in each issue, written by none other than Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz.

In past issues, there have been articles on other scientific areas likely to be of interest to calculator users like science history, astronomy, etc. It is amazing, by the way, the number of common interest we do have part of calculators. I have met some of my customers, and we never fail to have another hobby in common - and not a normal one!

The club is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and will have its annual meeting on the 27th and 28th of October in the Imperial College in London. As it is stated in the journal, "no need to register, no charge for attendance, not even for the pie!"

I hope they do not mind if I copy the agenda!

No need to register, no charge for attendance, not even for the pie!

Saturday 27thSunday 28th
10:00 Rooms open 11:00 Registration
11:00 Welcome 11:30 Home built ROM Modules for the 9830 by Tony Duell
11:30 Calculator Displays; Past, Present and Future (part 1) by Hugh Steers 12:30 Calculator Displays; Past, Present and Future (part 2) by Hugh Steers
12:30 Inside the 9125 Plotter by Tony Duell 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Lunch 14:30 The History of HPCC by Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz
14:00 US Conference Report by Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz 15:00 Break
15:00 Break / Short talk if any late entries   Time for two more presentations - offers welcome
15:30 Anybody Can Make a Calculator by Danish Ali 17:00 Thanks, farewells and wind down
16:30 Break

17:00 HPCC 30th Birthday Party with real pie!

18:00 Wind down and arrange evening meal for those staying over

This is what our conferences look like



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