Right, cute trick if you remember the numbers, no programming needed.
I programmed the calculator to spell out the words adding on a number/letter at a time. When you ran the program, the display would be S, then a pause, then SH, and another pause, then SHE, etc.
I was not posting about keying in the numbers all at the same time.
Maybe you are the only one who actually programmed it; I never saw that done. The cool thing about doing it the other way is that you had a story to tell to build up to show the viewer a surprise result. Just spelling out the letters is more impressive as a programming feat but not as interesting to watch.
Yeah I remember the ShellOil thing.
In the 70’s there was a calculation that if done a certain way, usually a story about a woman getting an operation narrated in a storytelling way as the numbers were added and crunched, then one the result came out, the calculator was inverted to “spell” out the punchline: “b00bLeSS”. The “L” being an inverted seven, the “S”, inverted fives.
This trick was shown to me by a thirty-something aunt.
I too remember the Shell oil thing, from the late 1970s.
7734 40
German cars are really confusing. They have an “OEL” cap. We pronounced it like we didn’t care to ever check. “Oh 'ell”.
This is the one I remember.!!