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#4247162 - 04/06/16 04:58 PM
For us slightly older nerds / Texas Instraments
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How many of you guys remember having the Texas Instrument calculator back in the 1980's? sin, cos, and tangent WOW !!!! 
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#4247171 - 04/06/16 05:13 PM
Re: For us slighltly older nerds
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IIRC, mine was a Ti-55 something and that was in 1976!!
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#4247172 - 04/06/16 05:16 PM
Re: For us slighltly older nerds
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I recall an early 80's slimline model and what I remember about them was the battery compartment prevented it from lying flat... I suppose it could have been a design feature but I thought they looked awkward. Casio won, at least as the school calculator of choice.
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#4247179 - 04/06/16 05:28 PM
Re: For us slighltly older nerds
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TI stuff always got a lot cooler when I learned they made missiles for the military too.
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#4247195 - 04/06/16 06:00 PM
Re: For us slighltly older nerds
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I has one, it even had text feature that could spell "boob5" and upside down it would also spell "hell" and "Shell"
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#4247274 - 04/06/16 10:11 PM
Re: For us slighltly older nerds
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I had my first TI calculator back in 1976 (can't remember the model) and then a TI-59 in the late 70's and by early 80's I was using an HP 12C and 15C.
I still have all those calculators in my possession and they still all work.
One of my TI you could put a roll of thermal paper in it and it will print out a long graph showing your biorhythm for any date you choose. Same story, sad thing though, Let my son use them in High School and never saw them again. Then again, just about anything I let him use of mine ended up broken or lost.
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#4247309 - 04/06/16 11:26 PM
Re: For us slighltly older nerds
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We were only allowed to use calculators for tests in high school, and only if everyone had one. I didn't have one, I could do the arithmetic in my head or on paper fast enough that I didn't see the need to buy a calculator. I ended up convincing the teachers to let the others use their calculators because I was not going to buy or borrow one.
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#4247314 - 04/06/16 11:38 PM
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We were only allowed to use calculators for tests in high school, and only if everyone had one. I didn't have one, I could do the arithmetic in my head or on paper fast enough that I didn't see the need to buy a calculator. I ended up convincing the teachers to let the others use their calculators because I was not going to buy or borrow one. Reminds me of the "show your work" rule that a lot of teachers had back when I was young. Explaining each step, transitive, congruent, symmetric, etc..... I shudder to think what I would score on a high school freshman algebra, geometry, or trigonometry test today.
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#4247316 - 04/06/16 11:43 PM
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We were only allowed to use calculators for tests in high school, and only if everyone had one. I didn't have one, I could do the arithmetic in my head or on paper fast enough that I didn't see the need to buy a calculator. I ended up convincing the teachers to let the others use their calculators because I was not going to buy or borrow one. Reminds me of the "show your work" rule that a lot of teachers had back when I was young. Explaining each step, transitive, congruent, symmetric, etc..... I shudder to think what I would score on a high school freshman algebra, geometry, or trigonometry test today. We were not allowed any Calculators in High School math, it had to written out and must prove how you got your answer. Was not until I was Votec school we got Calculators. Had a really nice slide rule to. You guessed it. My son destroyed it. I do have one old Jeppeson manual flight computer I never let him touch. Got it during flight training in 1986, looks like brand new yet.
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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