On 5/26/24 14:14, CAREY SCHUG wrote: > if it only manipulates numeric data, it is a calculator. It must be able to > search, rearrange look up, compare, and display characters. I would have > thought that to be obvious. I don'care if it has 99 terabites of high speed > memory and does fourier transforms in minus 0 seconds, if it cannot give a > text description of the answer, it is a calculator. > > Also something about arbritray branches to any location (ok, any executable > location if something has separate code and data memory).
HP-41 has an alpha-numeric display, and keyboard, and is Turing-complete. Really a phenomenal little gizmo. Read up on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-41C --Chuck
