Hi Les,
In a message dated 97-05-08 07:54:21 EDT, you write:
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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?
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It was either a SR-52 (1975) or TI-59 (1977). The first had a 100 step
memory, the latter a 960 step memory. You could store programs and data on
those tiny magnetic strips (guess they were like tiny floppies - except you
turned the card around to read the second track)!
Really great "micro-micro" computers. A terrific way to learn the thought
process of efficient programming (once wrote a Social Security retirement
program on the TI-59). What one could do when the bytes were few!
John Hamilton
hamijohn_at_aol.com
"Life would be much easier if I had the source code ..."
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 10:18:11 BST
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