Good stuff Chris.
I was from the dark side... I still have my original TI-58 and the TI-59 and thermal printer that I upgraded to
. All the programs on the magnetic cards still work
.
The main scientific calculator I use at work is an old Sharp fully solar powered thing I bought on a whim while I was at Uni... it amuses people who consult with me when I pick up the calculator, hold it at a particular angle, flex it's body until the tracks connect the LCD screen and then punch in numbers
... for some reason they often ask "are you sure?" even when the answer is obviously correct!
I still have my original Microbee computer packed away in the shed
. It started life as a 32k tape drive system, but after I finished uni I upgraded it to "chook-in-a-book" status
. Sometime after that IBM came out with the PC...
BTW I used to have my father's slide-rule... but I haven't seen that for a few years now... I wonder where that went...
Al.