9 Nov
2002
9 Nov
'02
1:29 p.m.
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>I have a TI Programmer's calc here somewhere
but it's a nuisance to
>keep it charged and it's always dead when I want to use it.
There were two models of the TI
"Programmer". The first model used LED
displays, and ate batteries at a rate impossible to keep up with. It
worked BEAUTIFULLY as a plugged in desktop unit.
My own favorite (otehr than my HP-16 ;-) is a CASIO CM-100 "computer
math calc". I originall y found these in the US sometime in the
eighties, I must have bought 5 or 10 and easily sold them to colleaugues
in europe. Later I lost my own and looked in vain til by chance I got a
trip to Japan and diligent searching in Akihabara turned up three.
The nice thing is they have no batteries, just a "solar panel" and do
not seem to need much light to function properly.
-- hbp