Thanks for the hearty response to the re launch of your Glencom Newsletter.
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Glencom still meets in the Ponderosa Bar, Glenshane Pass on the third Monday of the month. During the summer and around Christmas we sometimes take a break because of the holiday season.

Lots of entries for our prestigious Golden Button Award. We certainly had quite a time picking the eventual winner. We hope you agree with our final decision. If not --- nominate.
Every month we hope to award the Golden Button to a site of interest to club members. So email us with your nominations.

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I have a sentimental attraction to anything from the Hewlett Packard stable. Way back then, long before PCs, HP produced programmable calculators. The HP35, the grand-daddy of them all, the first scientific calculator - predating even Mr. Sinclair. This was followed by the programmables; HP65, HP67,HP41 and the HP48 - a succession of superbly built machines. The folklore about the robustness of HP machines is legion, there are stories of them surviving transit through snow blowers and the like.

When you bought a HP you felt your were one of the elite. In a sense you were, because they cost an arm and a leg. For the price that today would buy you a reasonable PC, you got what was then, the ultimate in personal computation. The accompanying manuals usually weighed several times as much as the machine they accompanied.

The trademark of all HP calculators then and now, apart from their superb standard of manufacture is their use of Reverse Polish Notation (RPN). Conventional calculators of the Casio/Texas Instruments/Sharp ilk use algebraic notation, HP alone continues to use RPN.