Re: Recommend a hex calculator?

On 2007-12-01, Rich Webb <bbew.ar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:

I'm shopping for a good hex programmer's calculator and I'm not
finding much.

I *hate* the Casio method of requiring a "mode switch" to change from
"computation" mode to "base" mode. Work through a chain of calculations
and need to convert the result to hex? Better write it down first or
remember to save it in a register. Forgot? Oops, do it all again.

Yea, that's one of the things I don't like much about the Casios.

The Sharp, TI, and HP calculators I've used recently
(certainly not all of them) do let you use [meta-key]+[hex] to
swap bases without losing the current result, a method I
overwhelmingly prefer.

I think I'll browse eBay for a new TI-34.

What you probably really want is an HP-16C (or its direct lineal
descendant which, unfortunately, doesn't exist either).

I had one of those back in the Early 80s, but it belonged to my
Employer, and they kept pretty close track of them (IIRC, they
cost well over $100 each).

The best I've found recently, though, is the freeware EasyCalc
for the Palm OS. One of the few that preserve a radix-point
when shifting bases.

Interesting.

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    (comp.arch.embedded)