8 May
1997
8 May
'97
1:07 a.m.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Mr. Self Destruct wrote:
Hi, I saw the post on the old calculator so here's
mine:
A buddy of mine used to work at a Salvation Army so I got
a lot of stuff that they threw out. One was an old TI
calculator that had these strips you fed in one side and
a motor pulled them through (almost like a credit card reader)
What is it? How old is it?
I vaguely recall TI doing mag-card programmables, but I've no memory of
just when or for how long. That sort of mag-card technology in hand-held
programmable calculators I believe first appeared in Hewlett-Packard's
HP-65 in 1973. As a starting freshman at Georgia Tech, I left a lot of
drool on the display case across the street at the Engineers' Bookstore.
But $795.00 was a little beyond my budget at the time, so I made do with
my old 10" Pickett.
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