Comments on: Wall Street’s Cult Calculator Turns 30 https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/wall-streets-cult-calculator-turns-30/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/wall-streets-cult-calculator-turns-30/comment-page-1/#comment-193568 Isegoria Wed, 04 May 2011 19:05:02 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24740#comment-193568 HP’s engineering calculators were equally good for not-lending. “You can borrow it, but I don’t think you’ll be able to use it…”

Anyway, there’s a lot to be said for a tool that does one job very well and can handle a bit of abuse without breaking.

]]> By: Curtis Lowe https://www.isegoria.net/2011/05/wall-streets-cult-calculator-turns-30/comment-page-1/#comment-193541 Curtis Lowe Wed, 04 May 2011 18:24:06 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24740#comment-193541 I own two of them. One I bought at the beginning of undergrad in 1988, which still works great and sits on my desk at home, and another I bought for my desk at work.

Never would have gotten through bond valuation work without it.

I love watching the face of someone who asks to borrow it when they are searching for the “equals” key.

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