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No surprise he is from TI. There was a time when HP led pack, now it is TI and Casio, at least as still_one Mar 2019 #1
He did not invent the calculator!! cally Mar 2019 #2
The OP article makes this differentiation BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #4
Yes but the settlement for breaking the patent was not mentioned cally Mar 2019 #13
I expect that articles specifically from tech sites vs from AP probably have more details on that. BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #21
So you are a super nerd, too. I still have a Commodore Calculator and a TI one. KWR65 Mar 2019 #6
The TI-30 was the first calculator I ever had. Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #7
That's the model that officially killed the slide rule dalton99a Mar 2019 #14
I still have mine! Jimbo S Mar 2019 #23
Mine came with this groovy math book. Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #24
Yes! I received that book as well Jimbo S Mar 2019 #32
Your Casio doesn't happen to be this gem, is it? Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #33
(Raises hand) Yeah, I had one of those. I think it was my second calculator. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2019 #25
I think I still have my TI-55 from college BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #8
Jerry Merryman: the man who killed the slide rule dalton99a Mar 2019 #3
I'm old enough to remember when the hand-held calculator was new and expensive. No Vested Interest Mar 2019 #5
do you mean graphing ones or even just the basic ones also ? JI7 Mar 2019 #9
IIRC, they were very basic, and not very small either. No Vested Interest Mar 2019 #10
Handheld calculators exploded in the late 70s / early 80s. Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #34
That's as I remember it, also. No Vested Interest Mar 2019 #35
A four-function TI Datamath 2500 was $120 in 1973; that would be about $730 in today's dollars LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #11
My dad was a Computer Programmer (COBOL) for the VA BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #22
Yeah, I remember paying $79 for a fairly basic model. nt Ferrets are Cool Mar 2019 #12
The prices dropped fairly quickly, within a few years, as they quickly became mass produced. No Vested Interest Mar 2019 #19
I'm young enough to remember using it to spell Generic Brad Mar 2019 #17
1,329,502 x 4 turned upside down. Dave Starsky Mar 2019 #20
The first time I saw a handheld calculator was when I was in A-school in Memphis in mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2019 #26
I paid $300 + for a hand held... I believe it was sometime around 1975. 3Hotdogs Mar 2019 #15
I think I paid $75 for my first calc around '76 yaesu Mar 2019 #16
old calculators bubbazero Mar 2019 #18
My first calculator jcmaine72 Mar 2019 #27
Before the fully functional one at TI, there was Bowmar and the Bowmar Brain Maeve Mar 2019 #28
My Dad Won One Of Those ProfessorGAC Mar 2019 #30
Between 7th and 8th exboyfil Mar 2019 #29
My old man had one of the original TI calculators. Yavin4 Mar 2019 #31
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