On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 13:43, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> There were two models of the TI "Programmer". The first model used LED
> displays, and ate batteries at a rate impossible to keep up with. It
> worked BEAUTIFULLY as a plugged in desktop unit.
>
My father gave me one of these for my 16th birthday in 1978. At the
time I was programming a Terak using UCSD Pascal along with an Amdahl
470 using APL and Fortran. Though I was still in high school, the local
university did not seem to have a problem with me hacking (in the good
sense) away on their mainframe.
ISTR that you could play 'music' on an AM radio by pushing different
combinations of the calculator keys. I really liked that calculator and
have no idea what became of it over the last couple of decades. I use
an HP-48GX for that kind of stuff now, though I will occasionally pick
up the old slip-stick for the odd quick calculation.
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Christopher L McNabb
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Received on Sat Nov 09 2002 - 12:54:00 GMT