Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

["John R. Sowden" <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 July 2005 11:49, James Knott wrote:
> Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:41, Anders Johansson wrote:
> >>On Sunday 17 July 2005 16:02, John R. Sowden wrote:
> >>>I am running Suse 9.3 with the KDE that came with it.  I am looking for
> >>> a calculator that, hopefully does not require megabytes o libraries,
> >>> etc that gives me a virtual tape, base conversions, memory function, a
> >>> few more features that a 4-banger.  Couldn't google one.
> >>
> >>I have no idea what a virtual tape is, but kcalc gives you all the other
> >>functions you mention.
> >
> > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away REAL calculators printed the
> > values entered and calculated results on a narrow, continuous feed roll
> > of paper sometimes referred to as a paper tape.  (Not to be confused with
> > the punched paper tape that early computers used.)
> >
> > He's looking for something that keeps a visible history like a paper
> > tape. I too have wondered at the plethora of calculator proggys available
> > and the lack of a visible history/virtual paper tape feature.
>
> So, where do you buy rolls of virtual tape?  ;-)
virtually anywhere, ...
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