The following is the schedule of events as they actually happened, which differs slightly from the "official" schedule handed out before the conference.
Time | Event/Person | Description and Notes |
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7:30 am | Registration | Register with Gene Wright and pick up Conference materials, "Proceedings" (32 GB USB Drive), RPN & RPL Contest, etc. |
8:15 am | Conference starts, announcements. |
Your registration materials are numbered. Save the blue ticket to put into the pot for the Sunday door prize drawing. Place any door prizes you donate on the door prize table. |
8:20 am | Attendee Introductions |
Keep short – Name, where from, Machines used, etc. <60 seconds. |
8:45 am | Jim Johnson | HP-25 LP: Panamatik’s New Woodstock Low-Power Upgrade Kit. |
9:10 am | Break | Introduce yourself to a new person. |
9:25 am | Tim Wessman | New HP-42S Replacement? |
11:05 pm | Gene Wright | Non-HP Desktop Scientific Calculators |
11:20 am | Group Photo | Quickly assemble in the meeting room. Tall people in the back. Please be extra that sure the camera sees your WHOLE face, not just your eyes. |
11:35 am | Break | Recuperate from the stress of the group photo. |
12:00 pm | Lunch | Lunch is in the adjoining room. |
1:00 pm | Gene Wright | New ROMs for the HP-41CL. |
1:15 pm | Sylvain Cote | 41CL Self-Update. |
2:15 pm | Daniel McDonald | "The End is Near" (or, "I love Pessimism") |
2:50 pm | Break | Introduce yourself to a second new person. |
3:20 pm | Bob Prosperi | Searching... for calculators. |
4:20 pm | Namir Shammas | PRNGs For Calculators. |
5:15 pm | Eric Rechlin | HP Calculator Archive Twentieth Anniversary. |
6:00 pm | Dinner | Dinner is in the same room as Lunch |
7:00 pm | Gene Wright | Don’t Make Me Wait. |
7:45 pm | Gene Wright | Commodore Scientific Calculators. |
8:15 pm | Richard Nelson | Not So Simple Power Calculations. |
9:15 pm | End of First Day | Drag off to bed; we don't start as early on Sunday. |
Time | Event/Person | Description and Notes |
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10:10 am | Conference reconvenes | Announcements, schedule changes, etc. |
10:20 am | Richard Schwartz | Log Tables |
11:00 am | Bob Prosperi | HP-75 Update |
12:00 pm | Lunch | Same place as yesterday. |
1:00 am | Namir Shammas | Halley-Ostrowski Root-Seeking Method |
1:20 pm | Eric Rechlin | What's on the HHC 2017 thumb drive |
1:40 pm | Jake Schwartz | EduCALC: A Look Back. |
2:50 pm | Eddie Shore | Extending the HP-12C: Programming for Scientific applications. |
3:20 pm | Don Shepherd | Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate. |
4:10 pm | Best Speaker Award | Attendees vote. |
4:15 pm | Other Contests Concluded |
Results judged, winners announced. |
4:20 pm | Door Prize Drawing | Submit your blue ticket and keep your registration number on your proceedings handy. Each person will win at least one prize. |
4:50 pm | Break | Ask that last question of your new friends. We are near the end. |
5:20 pm | User's Forum | General HPUC Q & A; suggestions for HHC 2018 (Monte suggests San Francisco Bay area). |
6:00 pm | Conference Concludes | After helping clean up the room, have a safe trip home! Join us for breakfast in the hotel tomorrow morning (usually the next conference is discussed). |
6:30 pm | Informal post- conference dinner |
Location: various |