Slipsticks and calculators and a clock

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Fri Feb 6 17:45:05 1998

On 4 Feb 98 at 16:37, Allison J Parent wrote:

>
> <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
> <>"wedge". $110, IIRC....Was that TI's first?
>
> Not by a long shot. The first was in late '71 and went for about $140
> (8bigit 4banger). I had one going into EE school.
>
> Allison
>
 I have a TI-55-II that I got in 82 and IIRC they went for around
that price. Still works-same debounce problem. I think TI perfected
the newest model - consumer price structure that we get with
computers now ($2000-$3000 ) or was that Big-3 automobiles.

ciao larry
lwalkerN0spaM_at_interlog.com
Received on Fri Feb 06 1998 - 17:45:05 GMT