Vintage-45 app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: CuVee Software
First release : 06 Mar 2012
App size: 16.06 Mb
Vintage-45 is a complete simulation of Hewlett-Packards scientific hand-held calculator HP-45 from 1973. Processing times and behavior have been carefully modelled after the original. Even the "secret" stopwatch may be activated.
Features:
• Photo-realistic look based on an existing device
• Animated keys with adjustable click sound and visual feedback
• All functions and operations of the HP-45 fully implemented
• Includes "secret" stopwatch
• Full-speed or simulated speed of real calculator
• Correct wrong number entries by swiping left across the display
• Cut/copy/paste display value
• Double-tap display to show stack and all memory registers
• Additional conversions (optional): Celsius vs. Fahrenheit, liters per 100km vs. mpg (US and UK), m/ft, g/oz
Tap the display for some basic hints.
For more information and a short manual visit the homepage: cuveesoft.ch
Latest reviews of Vintage-45 app for iPhone and iPad
...to see my old trusty HP-45 calculator in the display of my iPhone. If you werent using calculators back in the early seventies, you might not appreciate this feeling. Somehow, I miss those light diode displays; they are just somehow cozier than the cold segmented LEDs you see in todays $8 calculators stuffed in cardboard display units at the local Best Buy. The developers HP-45 app for the iPad offers more features - including five magnitudes of faster calculating speed, and its presentation isnt a bit squished like this app. But the HP-45 was a HAND-held calculator intended for your pocket, and when was the last time you put your iPad in your pocket? Be sure to visit the developers web site where youll find a abbreviated manual and lots of facts about the HP-45 and how you can use this calculator to accomplish a surprising amount of calculating. In summary, it isnt very fast (the HP-45 wasnt either), but back in the seventies it was just sort of amazing it existed at all (kind of like todays iPhone and iPad). For a buck, the Vintage-45 is a little side-trip down memory lane, at least for us aging geeks.
My favorite calculator app for iPhone. Love it!
Ivre been using a real HP-45 since 1973. When use it at my desk all the time, but I sure miss it on the road. Problem solved, thanks to Willy Kunz. Great job!
Wonderful app! I would love an equally good HP-67 for iPhone. I have it for iPad, but not for my phone. It would be nice if the volume adjustment stayed set rather than needing to be reset each time the app starts.