AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Parham" <obparham@...> wrote:
> 
> Ok, I got home and tracked it down. It's a Casio model CM-100 that 
I 
> got for free, in 1986, as a promo for buying a graphing calculator. 
> I stuck it into the scanner and posted the resulting  pic in the 
photo
> section of the Yahoo web site.
> 
> The COMP button puts the unit into normal floating point mode and 
any
> of the BIN - HEX buttons switches it to integer operation. And yes,
> the A-F keys expand the numeric pad to 16 digits in integer mode. 
I'm
> sure this model has been out of production for a long time but, if 
you
> can find a working one, it's worth it. Not a high power unit but, 
like
> I said, the batteries still work!
> 
> Bruce
>

I agree, the CM-100 is the one to have. I've used mine daily for ~15 
years & it still works great. Amongst the many nice features is its 
ability to show the status of Carry and Overflow bits based on 
selectable word sizes of 4,8,16, or 32 bits. 

The only more capable unit I know of is the HP-16, but at $200-$500 
on eBay, they're becoming collectors items. Besides, I own an HP-16 , 
but still use my CM-100 most of the time.

The CM-100's seem to go for $30-$60 on eBay.

Here's another nice CM-100 pic with some of its specs:
http://www.devidts.com/be-calc/poc_13622.html

- Mark