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Offline zeitgeist

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Re: Holy COW!!
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2011, 03:58:10 PM »
Quote from: Thor on January 17, 2011, 03:45:27 PM
No, the TI51s were out by then. Those were the item to have. Of course, I was stuck with a slide rule throughout high school.

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Re: Holy COW!!
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2011, 01:13:25 PM »
Quote from: Thor on January 17, 2011, 03:45:27 PM
No, the TI51s were out by then. Those were the item to have. Of course, I was stuck with a slide rule throughout high school.

I'm probably thinking back to Sophomore (75?) year then, so they were prob those units. I remember them being all the rage, and the $200 price tag seems right.
I still remember in my Senior (77) year that the class "business machines" still had rotary calculators next to the new electronic ones. My teacher insisted we use the old rotary machines.   :hammer:
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Re: Holy COW!!
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2011, 03:31:04 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on January 18, 2011, 01:13:25 PM
I'm probably thinking back to Sophomore (75?) year then, so they were prob those units. I remember them being all the rage, and the $200 price tag seems right.
I still remember in my Senior (77) year that the class "business machines" still had rotary calculators next to the new electronic ones. My teacher insisted we use the old rotary machines.   :hammer:

I THINK they came out in late 73. I know that one of the kids in my physics class had one. I could usually get the answer quicker from my slide rule than he could punch in all of the numbers (when I wasn't stoned or drunk) That was 74-75.
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