Slipsticks and calculators and a clock

From: Kip Crosby <engine_at_chac.org>
Date: Wed Feb 4 11:28:54 1998

At 11:34 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Texas Instruments was naming some of their calculators "SR" (for Slide
>Rule) up until the mid-80's, at least. My first one was the SR-10...the LED
>"wedge". $110, IIRC....Was that TI's first?

So my father thought, at least, when he bought the first one he saw, for
$140. My mother was appalled.

(He also bought TI's first, maybe the first-in-the-US, LED digital clock,
the TI-71. I don't remember how much that was, and suspect he never let
on, but it's here now, still keeping fine time.)

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