Old Geeks

 

 

Sorry young geeks! This is only for us 42++ers.

 

 

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[Tom]

Hey, I'll have you know that I'm only 32 and a proud owner of an HP-48 that I used in high school. And, for the record, RPN rocks!

[_michal]

Damn reverse polish notation. I'm 31 ;)

[Felipe]

Hey!!!! I have 24 and I understand that... The legend is bad!!!! =P

[Ward Muylaert]

Not like you need to be 42+ to know Reverse Polish Notation, I had it in class when learning assembly.

[Bartnikj]

I'm 26 and I remember reversed polish notation (maybe because of patriotic reasons - I'm from Poland). I even had commodore calculator when I was young... and I still think that postfix notation is far more human-readable than the "traditional" infix one.

[Xav]

Hey! I am only 33 and I still have my HP48G near my desk!

[Olivier]

Am I weird? I'm far from 42, and I know what RPN is :-/

[chema]

Hey! i'm 24 but my dad got one of thoose Reverse Polish notation calcs and i really love it!
btw, theres an app for iphone and such that emulates that calcs.

Greetings form spain!

[Screamer]

Man, I honestly am 24yrs old and I got the funny part in your comic

My dad still has one of those HP "pocket" computers. I used it a few times for fun (I was 10-12yrs old) and it was a pretty nifty piece of equipment, and it could do more complex equations, with user input variables :D ...good days. He still has it, and it is in a mint state, you don't see something like that made this days :(

[federico]

I used an HP48G+ during college, and it saved my life!!

[Zim]

I'm 21 and I get it! If you excuse me, I need to get a life, brb.

[Ritchie]

Yezzz! This is indeed a great one... I've been a fan of geekandpoke for quite a while now and enjoyed the cartoons a lot, but this is my first comment.

Actually, I'm not in the target group (34++) *and* I never used one of those HPs; instead when I went to highschool, I learned the basics of basic on my Sharp PC-E 500 (which is still alive and running up to date btw). On this calculator, the user enters data in "natural mathematical formula language" (ok, this is a very weird term, but you know what I mean). I was used to this machine and loved it back then (I actually still do, after all I'm talking about my first computer here).

Later at the university most of my fellow students used the said HPs, which I had never tried before; when my mate showed me how to enter data, the system totally weirded me out - I never switched to this device; so it took me quite a while to get the joke... but then it hit me and so I wrote this very comment and here we are. I'm out, just one more thing: keep up the great fun! I'll keep liking g&p.

[Karl Åström]

yeah because you know a lot of us "young" geeks prefer prefix to rpn
(/ (- (* (+ 4 2) (+ 23 47)) 1) 10)

[Amr Hassan]

I don't get it!

[Fred]

Love it! Although you're little off in the age range there, I'm 28 and I still have my hp49g+ on my desk. Don't use it much, but still..

[Manutaust]

I'm 16 and do know HP's RPN input method =) !

[Enrico Colombini]

How true. But I do not miss it... I still use my faithful HP-16C :-)

(it beats firing up a console window and starting Lua)

[elzapp]

Postfix operators.

- 27 y. o.

[PedroG]

I will ask "explain xkcd" guys if they can explain this one too :-)

[Arun]

This is easily the best and geekiest of your strips I have seen. Loved this totally totally totally.

[aplc-t]

Oh dear, love that !!
HP48 Rulez !

[DeanG]

1+

[Erico]

1993 48g owner still catch it.

[Lulu]

I'm Carol, 7 years old, and I understood your comic.

You've offended me.

[rhk]

OMG! Too many people got trolled...

[Johnathan]

I'm 33 and loved my RPN calc. Didn't have to worry about anybody wanting to borrow it, and it was more powerful than most everybody else's. The only problem is when it finally died, it took me a few months to remember how to use a "normal" calculator. Still try to use RPN sometimes.

[z]

just for feeding the troll :

hey, grand pa, I'm 26 and I use a HP48GX since highschool. And now I use dc everywhere in my shells (because a shell is über-portable : you can connect to it from phones, laptops, desktops, a friend's computer or through proxies at work/universities).

[tienne]

Also adding in to the trolling: I'm 22 and als still use RPN calculators. They just rule the hell out of the other ones..