To: CaptRon
My first computer. It could crunch numbers but couldn't word process worth a damn (only could spell about 10 words, and they had to be upside down).
To: Larry Lucido
40 posted on
12/16/2005 2:52:28 PM PST by
stacytec
(Nihilism, its whats for dinner)
To: Larry Lucido
45 posted on
12/16/2005 3:03:12 PM PST by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Larry Lucido
Before I could afford a decent scientific calculator, I was using a 4 function Radio Shack calculator and performing square roots by successive approximation. The "rich" kids on campus (UCSD) had HP35 or HP45 calculators. A few people had TI-30's.
My college graduation present was an HP25. I wrote my first "software" on that calculator to replace some of the genetics crossover frequency tables from the Schaum's study guide. I passed that code along to one of my professors who needed finer granularity than the published tables offered. That was about 10 million lines of code ago. Time flies.
99 posted on
12/16/2005 5:09:36 PM PST by
Myrddin
To: Larry Lucido
I still have and use one of them TI solar powered calculators. Found it at school in 1990, so could be older than 1990. Still love it, btw.
119 posted on
12/16/2005 9:40:38 PM PST by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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