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I can hardly wait for it to arrive!!!
Ricci.Wright
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Spilled acetone on my old one so I spent the $10.00 and treated myself to a new one. Should be Wednesday. I can hardly wait. And it is a "Simple Design" so I should be able to use it.
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I just use the one on my phone.
is that actual size ?
when I was in 9th grade ( 1971 or so ) I bought a radio shack calculator . one of the first pocket size ( LOL about 2"x 4"x6" give or take ) I think it was about 50.00 a lot of money at the time and I think I still have it boxed away some where .. has the small red letter display, I had just started my first job and thought it would be great to have and use in school . 1st day in class the math teacher walked in as the other kids were all gathered around me looking at my new toy he said no way are you allowed to use it in my class . that's cheating 🤨
its funny now thinking about it , remember when the schools deemed a laptop was standard for 1st graders and if you did not have one the school would provide one and are as common as a pencil now if not more so in school
however I was some kind of nut wanting to use just a calculator
flip side on rules I also took a m1 carbine to school and crickets, no one said a word even my teacher gave me permission to bring it in ..
I think I had that very same calculator and yes $50 bucks was a ton of money for me back then. I recall it had the glowing red numbers and its functions were pretty basic. Fast forward 15+ years and I bought a Texas Instruments one that was half the size, solar powered and has some functions that 99% of the public are confused by. I think it cost $150 or so and now something comparable is about $20. The Radio Shack one is long gone but once or twice a week I still use the good old TI and it still works great after more than 30 years. Thanks for the memories of buying my first tech marvel, the Radio Shack calculator. Bob
Almost forgot to mention that when I bought that first calculator, my mother was amazed! While dad was over fighting the Germans she worked in the accounting office at Sears. She logged thousands of hours working with a comptometer, which was considered high tech at the time. The small light calculator that did more than her big old clunky manual machine was a revelation.
I've got one of those and it still works! I think my mom got it for me in '72 or so.
"Walmart has um in stock. $5.99. 😀"
Yea, I looked at those, but they are missing some of the numbers.
dollar general 1.00
Yepper,,,,,,,All ‘ones’ X all ‘ones’ = 12345678 ,,,,,🤣
Or, you can buy a Slide Rule and do more ,,,,,,,, 🙄
It took me a very long time to trust one of those things! Just HOW could something so small be accurate and dependable for my meager income and expenses?
I now have grown quite dependent on the darn things and have lost a bit of my old times tables abilities.
I remember when I was in 8th grade my math teacher got one of those and at that time they were over $200. I always wanted one.
About 1968 TI brought out the first digital calculator....the DataMath....add, subtract, multiply, divide, and constant. It was about $100. About twenty years ago, a friend gave me two of them(bad batteries).....I still have them.
In college, 1972, the rich EE guys had the new HP-35 calculator.....at $400.
At that time I was carrying my Post Versilog slide rule.....still have it. Learned slide rule operations in my 11th grade electronics class.
Fast forward to about 2000......I bought a simple calculator at ChinaMart for..........one buck.
In spite of all the above....in the 1990's, on road trips, my wife and I would quiz our two kids. We would ask them to calculate our miles per gallon..................IN THEIR HEADS. Yep.....it was tough at first, but they got better.
Kids don't stand a chance of developing their cognitive thinking if the school "system" shoves a computer in front of a first grader.....and thinks that will educate them.
Ruled paper.....a #2 pencil........and......BOOKS!!!!!
There.......I feel better now.
Yup, all this tech is great but when it breaks there are a lot of folks who will default to limp in mode and just walk around in circles.
how about a 'made in USA' texas inst. and only $12.95 back in the day
@The artist formerly known as Dano
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I do not remember the numbers or sequences but when put into the display and then turned upside down well the other kids thought it was amazing "bad words could be spelled out LOL "
My grand daughter will graduate in about 18 months on the non traditional calender they use now . She is decent in math if she had the little magic machine but totally lost with out it. My son ,age 32 ,is the same way . Lost without a machine . School quit teaching math a long time ago.
Did it arrive yet?
Yes!!! It was waiting in my mailbox last night.
Awesome!
If you buy one at walmart , use it for the clerk at checkout.
guess you can put your socks back on now.............
And pants! Don
I find it very disturbing that you guys think about me without clothes. Especially you Don.
I like doing math with paper & pencil (pen) to exercise the grey matter.