Programmable Solutions
Don't count them out! If you are old enough, you can remember a time back in the 1980s when the mainframes were taken away and replaced with … nothing! Many professional groups operated for several years using nothing more than programmable calculators. In Xelerated Solutions' highly opinionated opinion, the best of the many machines offered was the very popular HP-41C series alpha-numeric programmable calculator. These machines and their add-ons performed an amazing amount of automation. Programs could be saved and output could be printed. Best of all, when all you needed was a calculator, it was still an HP with all the functions you could ever want. And the "feel" of that keyboard ... Ahhhh ... but we digress...
After PCs and spreadsheet applications became readily available, most automated applications were migrated over to these more robust tools. However, savvy professionals still use their programmables for many smaller and temporary programming needs and find it difficult to function without them. If you are required to do daily repetitive calculations, you should still own and be able to program a programmable calculator, even if it is (dare we say it?) not an HP.
Perhaps one of the most common functions performed on programmables is conversions. For example, you may want to convert decimal feet values to feet, inches and sixteenths values and back again. (If all you older folks haven't dumped those "Addiators" by now, shame on you!) These conversion routines can save those who deal extensively with unit conversions loads of time and can make the conversions more reliable than doing them by hand. The programs required for the feet, inches and sixteenths to decimal feet conversions are not very long. On most machines, they fit in a total of about 50 program lines. A list of the program lines required for these two routines is available for free at our prorammables consultation site.
Programmables are also suitable for functions such as interpolation routines, circle functions, quick trial and error variable solutions, and volume and area calculations. The uses are limited only by the imagination of the user.
If you are one of the many professionals who have overlooked the power of the programmable calculator (or even if you are not), we invite you to visit our discussion and consultation pages. The help is friendly and free and offered with a true desire to help you fall in love with one of these great little machines.
The solutions currently relegated to programmables are typically so small and simple that most users have no difficulty developing their own applications. However, Xelerated Solutions does offer development services for those who may have unusual needs. Just click on our development button and explain your need. Our expertise in this area is limited to the HP machines, but if the project is large enough, and you don't have the time to learn how to use your particular machine, who knows, maybe we will.
