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Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

Message: 27 Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:55:28 -0500 From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators Message-ID: <51340D20.5030509 at neurotica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 03/03/2013 09:42 PM, Chris Tofu wrote: >> we have one com. calc like this one in photo >> in calc case at museum >> >> _http://www.burninghorizon.com/gallery2/v/cons/eccc2010/DSCF1042.jpg.html_ >> (http://www.burninghorizon.com/gallery2/v/cons/eccc2010/DSCF1042.jpg.html) >> >> ed - www.smecc.org > > congratulations Ed. that is unquestionably the funkiest ugliest calculator I personally have ever seen. Egads. > Maybe it's just me, but I think it's AWESOME. > -Dave -- >Dave McGuire, AK4HZ >New Kensington, PA I LOVE THE CLUNKY OL' THING! Really need to find some data on it! Someone gave it to me as a gift fro the computer display we had back in the 80s at our computer business and it moved over into the museum side of things now! Does anyone have data on it!? Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)

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Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Did Commie make only one? I have one, don't ask me the specifics. White keys, some red, some blue IIRC. Green display IIRC. 1000$ to the first/last bidder (make that a Pay it Right Now). Mostly for the distinct pleasure of exhuming it from my time capsule. Alright I'll take 950$. I'm not a hard man.

12 years, 1 month

Raspberry Pi

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 11:38 AM PST Tony Duell wrote: >It has been said that now that calcualtors are everywhere, kids do not >need to leanr how to do long multiplication and division. I am nto sure I >accept that (given that long multiplciaton and division have applciations >in manipulating agebraic expresions too). But I am convinced that if you >are goign to assume that clacualtors are everywhere you should teach kids >why said calculators do not always give the right answers and how to >avoid such problems. > >-tony When I was in hs, calculators weren't seen until or 12th grade. When it was impractical and too time consuming to work out every log, trig function, or laborious arithmetic operation. Kids have been bringing calculators to school for 2 decades probably, and I for one see that as a travesty.

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Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

we have one com. calc like this one in photo in calc case at museum _http://www.burninghorizon.com/gallery2/v/cons/eccc2010/DSCF1042.jpg.html_ (http://www.burninghorizon.com/gallery2/v/cons/eccc2010/DSCF1042.jpg.html) ed - www.smecc.org

12 years, 1 month

Commodore calculators was RE: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

>> _http://www.burninghorizon.com/gallery2/v/cons/eccc2010/DSCF1042.jpg.html_ >> (http://www.burninghorizon.com/gallery2/v/cons/eccc2010/DSCF1042.jpg.html) >> >> ed - www.smecc.org >> >> congratulations Ed. that is unquestionably the funkiest ugliest calculator I personally have ever seen. Egads. > > Maybe it's just me, but I think it's AWESOME. > > -Dave But it doesn't even look like a calculator. Far more like a phone. Uniquely horrible. That's not a bad thing though. Don't get the wrong idea.

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Calculators

by jgessling＠yahoo.com

This leads me to my belief that I was the last slide rule teacher.? In 1975, in Ghana, I was teaching A level math as a Peace Corps teacher.? We had a whole section on slide rule calculations.? Thanks to some agency, I think UNICEF, we had one of those 6 foot long rules that mounted at the front of the class.? The kids really caught on quick and it was a lot of fun.? Especially as the students figured out other things they could do. Regards, James?

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IBM Model F DIN connector repair

by mbbrutman-cctalk＠brutman.com

I have two Model F keyboards (original PC or XT) that have gone bad due to an intermittent connection in the DIN connector. I'm not sure how these were originally assembled, but in the mode of failure that I have the pins (embedded in the round black plastic that spaces them) come out of the rubber sleeve. Pressing tightly restores connection for a little bit, but it is not really usable that way. Finding the DIN plug is not a problem. But I really don't want to hack off the end of the cable with the nice molded IBM plug. These are not museum pieces, but I'd like the repair to be unobtrusive. Has anybody else run into this problem and attempted a fix? I'm also open to just replacing the cord entirely, but I doubt that there is a surplus of originals laying around anywhere. Mike

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Slide Rules (was: Calculators)

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:17 AM PST Mark Tapley wrote: >James (and Chris), > I graduated in 1980, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas. We had a slide rule team, with a coach. In addition, my Biology and physics teachers all let me use slide rule for all homework and tests, giving me credit if my answer was within about 0.5% or so. Dunno whether that counts, but if so would push the date out to 1980. > I did get a TI-59 (still have it, sticky keyboard and I'll bet the card reader doesn't work) middle of my senior year. That was a pleasant culture shock... > I don't know that I ever saw one of the six-foot-long "supercomputers" :-) . > >At 20:07 -0600 3/2/13, <James> wrote: >> This leads me to my belief that I was the last slide rule teacher.? In 1975, in Ghana, .... > >-- - Mark 210-379-4635 I think I was required to get a scientific calc in 12th grade (pre-calc, uh, why does that designation not seem right?). Or maybe it was just strongly suggested. Obviously it made sense at that point. Mine was a horizontal Sharp thingamabob. It wasn't the real high end model/s, designated PC-n by Radio Shacj IIRC. I broke the lcd years later, though I could hack in a replacement, but I can't find it. Only the brown plastic slide in case. Cost about 40$. >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Large Asteroids headed toward planets >inhabited by beings that don't have >technology adequate to stop them: > > Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

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Raspberry Pi & Electronic devices and such - calculators, microcomputers & more

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

R. Fogarty writes: ? Knowing how to program a computer may seem like a far-fetched dream for ?ordinary? people. After all, don?t you have to be some kind of genius to manipulate the will of a machine and have it do your bidding?? Well, with Raspberry Pi, no! And most beneficial of all you?ll be in geek heaven. What better way to understanding Big Data today and having a fond and respectful remembrance of classic computing of yesteryear. Or maybe as C. Zarin writes: ?We learn more than we ever wanted to know about things we wish we?d never heard of.? I hope this never comes to pass when it comes to classic/vintage computing. Murray--

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Sharp EL-5100 was Re: Calculators

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I wanted Josh to be proud of me. I searched out vintage sharp calcs on ebay, not Google/Lord Goozitsu. Mine was the EL-5100. Was nice. Wish I could find mine. Only got the brown case, which is cracked. But so is Josh. Is ebay the new Google/Goozitsu?

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