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Me, I'm from the HP48 generation 
Mircea
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I've got my college HP48CX downstairs with the batteries taken out (still worked fine), and an emulator I use on my phone for my calculator.
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My step-dad, an electrical engineer, bought an HP-35 when they first came out. I believe he still has it, and it is still in working order.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In the very early days of calculators, there were 4-function models and significantly more expensive 5-function models - the fifth function was square root.
A friend of mine saved money buying the 4-function model, hoping that it really could do square root as well, even if the button for it was missing; there was only a flat grey square in its position. Hopefully, it would be possible to solder in a small pushbutton.
So my friend found a scalpel for cutting the flat grey square open. And out popped a button with a square root symbol on top. Not only could the calculator do square root, it even had the button for it hidden under the blind cover!
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I'll leave it to OG to post the solution. 
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In that case, cant we just increment by 1. Bed having information is convincing (7)
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Bed having information is convincing (6)
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[edit]Bugger! I forgot to self censor for an hour ... [/edit]
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Too late YAUT
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No, no - nobody saw it but you and I. We can do this!
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You company man
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Does that mean I now will have two bodies to hide? This is going to turn into a Bruce Willis movie if we aren't careful ... 
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Yippee Ki Yay m?????f???er
Edit
Gear department is convincing.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 27-Oct-21 4:38am.
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Bed CO T
having
information GEN
is convincing
COGENT
(I'm getting a sense of déjà vu here ... still could be worse: réjà vu is a bitch.)
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You are officially up tomorrow
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How did I know that was going to happen?
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Our self imposed handicapping system is not working - I'm trying to make the clues easier ( yesterdays wasn't a good clue in hindsight ) but it still seems to be you that solves most of them - I know what the problem is !!! IT'S YOU you are barred forthwith
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:HangsHeadInShame:
:ShufflesOffToChokey:
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I am trying to figure out how to train an AI to solve these and then I will feed it random words to see what answers it generates.
So far all I can come up with is
Requirements:
1. Answer must appear in dictionary
2. Length of answer matches number in ()
GEN?
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GEN | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary[^]
It's from "general information" in military parlance, apparently.
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After all this bashing Apple is thinking of changing its name into "Cider" 
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The next evolution in forward thinking design!
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