calculators, was: Re: Best Find of the Weekend!

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_aconit.org>
Date: Sat Nov 9 13:29:00 2002

Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>>I have a TI Programmer's calc here somewhere but it's a nuisance to
>>keep it charged and it's always dead when I want to use it.

> 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 own favorite (otehr than my HP-16 ;-) is a CASIO CM-100 "computer
math calc". I originall y found these in the US sometime in the
eighties, I must have bought 5 or 10 and easily sold them to colleaugues
in europe. Later I lost my own and looked in vain til by chance I got a
trip to Japan and diligent searching in Akihabara turned up three.

The nice thing is they have no batteries, just a "solar panel" and do
not seem to need much light to function properly.

  -- hbp
Received on Sat Nov 09 2002 - 13:29:00 GMT