Lee Hauser
Sep 25, 2021

I loved my Timex/Sinclair 1000 (my first computer, the American version of the ZX81) and the Cambridge Z88 laptop (his final computer design). But I was using HP calculators with Reverse Polish Notation long before I got my first computer. It's an elegant, parenthesis-free input method, and still the way my muscle memory wants to use a handheld calculator.

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