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26-10-2009, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Foot-shaped rocks huh? Interesting......!  And you call me nuts!  |
Well, you know how it is.
I have a friend who collects sick bags from the airlines.
(unused of course)
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26-10-2009, 05:01 PM
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Spam Hunter
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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.
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26-10-2009, 05:05 PM
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Starcatcher
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp9au
I don't collect calculators, but I have a bit of an obsession when ever I see an old one, to see what happens when you divide a number by zero!
In the early days calculators would go off searching for the result, rather than give you an 'E', it was mesmerising to watch them work!
Cheers
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I remember! That was great - the display digits would keep flickering until you killed it.
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26-10-2009, 05:12 PM
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Hitchhiker
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Originally Posted by erick
I remember! That was great - the display digits would keep flickering until you killed it.
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Showing my age again!
Chris
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26-10-2009, 05:14 PM
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Let there be night...
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Hobart, TAS
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LOL!
So - what "words" did you display on yours - either right way up or upside down?
Here's a pretty good list: http://www.langmaker.com/calculatorwords.htm
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26-10-2009, 05:19 PM
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Starcatcher
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55378008 - that's me!
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26-10-2009, 05:23 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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Originally Posted by erick
55378008 - that's me!
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lol Eric
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26-10-2009, 05:25 PM
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Tripping in Space
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
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LOL Chris that's great 
happy hunting
Update: Just found this site, but take it you'd be well up to speed?
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/ht...ock_anita.html
Last edited by Astro78; 26-10-2009 at 05:40 PM.
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26-10-2009, 05:40 PM
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Registered User
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Quote:
Originally Posted by erick
55378008 - that's me!
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You're a bad boy Eric.
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26-10-2009, 05:46 PM
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Let there be night...
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Astro78
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No - hadn't come across that one! Thank you sir! Interesting reading. I'd luuurve a 1011!
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26-10-2009, 05:57 PM
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ze frogginator
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My dad still got the original TI-99 from texas instrument and the base with the print roll. It also had the slot on the side with the magnetic cards to save programs.
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26-10-2009, 06:27 PM
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Bust Duster
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When I was at uni I had a HP42. Awesome calculator - fast, and you hit the buttons and you know they were hit and registered. Click.
Started work (structural engineer), decided to "upgrade" to a HP48. Nice clicky buttons, but bit slower.
Office fire, insurance money and I bought the latest HP49. Woeful. hit buttons doing fast calcs and they weren't registering, the nice click feel gone. Horrible.
Recently cracked it and bought the new HP35s. Nice clicky feel is back, pretty fast, but sometimes the buttons don't seem to register. Just slows things down when you're not 100% confident that because you felt a click, it registered.
Oh for my original HP42 back again... it was all downhill after that beauty.
I know the HP41 is a bit of a cult classic too.
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26-10-2009, 06:41 PM
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Let there be night...
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I quite like the 35S Troy, and haven't had the need to question its key depressions as yet. Maybe I just don't use it as heavily as you do? I must say, the 41CV and 32E are brilliant in that regard - as is the 12C. I'd love an 11C.
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26-10-2009, 06:59 PM
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Bust Duster
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Yeah, it cops a pretty heavy workout. And when you're doing calcs, you want to not have to look at the screen, fingers pretty much fly over the keyboard. You want the click to be a guaranteed register.
It does help now that I'm so experienced at the sort of calcs we're doing, you pretty much know the ballpark of the answers you're going to get anyway, so you know as soon as you see the result the calculator gives you if something was entered incorrectly. It's usually out by a factor of 10 at least - most calcs are multiplication type formulae, not addition if you know what I mean.
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26-10-2009, 07:10 PM
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pro lumen
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no worries Jeanette .. Does everyone else think they
look like a foot ? .
Had a family member show up out of the blue last week , hes collecting hills hoists  .. he'd had bought his latest aquisition off e bay for 50 cents and had just driven 250 kms to pick it up from round the corner from us.. while we were having a cuppa he spotted our old beaten up line out back and said .. "you know that peg baskets original".. "and they are hard to get hold of these days".. Saw him off with his dimantled ratty old clothsline filling the inside of his car .. and thought man I hope you didn't tell the people round the corner where we live .
calculaters are pretty tame chris .
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26-10-2009, 07:11 PM
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Registered User
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Got a bunch of early TI's myself, mostly VFD and LED, plus a couple of old Japanese four function house bricks!
My favourite in the collection is the TI-76 "Spirit of 76", it's a red white and blue USA Bicentenial special issue.
Cheers,
Jason.
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26-10-2009, 07:17 PM
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Tripping in Space
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Omaroo
No - hadn't come across that one! Thank you sir! Interesting reading. I'd luuurve a 1011! |
Most strangely so do I now too.
I wont panic just yet, they're 'retro' and that's cool 
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26-10-2009, 07:23 PM
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Let there be night...
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Astro78
Most strangely so do I now too.
I wont panic just yet, they're 'retro' and that's cool |
Dang!!!! Here's a 1000 going on FleaBay!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Vintage-Sum...item3ca6bb9923
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26-10-2009, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by nightstalker
no worries Jeanette .. Does everyone else think they
look like a foot ? . |
Oh, aye, they do. Then they look at me kinda strange as they're backing slooowwly away from me.
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26-10-2009, 07:40 PM
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Tripping in Space
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Originally Posted by Omaroo
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It's even got a HAL9000 type name. ANITA, she sounds a little evil, wonder if your likely to come home and have to argue to be let in through your front door. LOL - what am I on about??
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