Stitching away - Page 10

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>>>> On 8/6/09 5:22 PM, in article
>>>> a39c1b82-10dd-4e76-9ee7-ebeb9cfb8...@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, "Dr_brat"
>>>>>> Don't get me started. DS is required to have a $100 calculator for
>>>>>> pre-calculus. A different one from all his other courses.
>>>>> My mother had six kinds of hissy over buying me a TI30 in 1978. Guess
>>>>> which calculator I'm still using for my grades all these years later?
>>>>> Elizabeth
>>>> Those were little power houses. Still love my Casio for stats...
>>>> Cheryl
>>> I had the TI30 also. But, fortunately DF got over the cost and slur upon
>>> his sliderule! I couldn't swing the HP I really wanted. But, like
>>> Elizabeth, still have some of those college calculators.
>> Careful, there, lady. Mine was a high school calculator.
>> Elizabeth (ducking)
> Sorry for seeming to make an age assumption - as I r,d,h . OTOH, I was in
> university at 15, so.....But, I bow, courteously, to your youth ;^) And I
> do remember freshman year, in the spring, both HP & TI coming to campus with
> essentially trunk shows (the joys of being at a mainly engineering & science
> uni), and the excitement of so many. A girl on my hallway got a TI for
> about $150 (the HPs were closer to $300 IIRC) and would let me borrow it for
> chemistry! Our Tas actually made a rule that we could not use them in the
> weekly lab quiz - I guess they wanted to be sure we understood logs
> (acid-base thing). But, sophmore year we were allowed to have them for some
> things. As a scholarship kid, with no, I repeat, no extra money besides my
> job - I couldn't buy one in the spring. But finally did get one in the
> fall.
>
> Ellice - who is taking a break post dinner before back to the marathon
>

> DH was an engineering student, and bought the first-generation TI
> calculator for about $375, IIRC. Ouch! (I think that's as much as a good
> Guild 12-string guitar was at the time! His other avocation.) The
> calculator used reverse Polish notation - anyone remember that?

> ellice wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/6/09 5:22 PM, in article
>>>>> a39c1b82-10dd-4e76-9ee7-ebeb9cfb8...@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com,
>>>>> "Dr_brat"
>>>>>>> Don't get me started. DS is required to have a $100 calculator for
>>>>>>> pre-calculus. A different one from all his other courses.
>>>>>> My mother had six kinds of hissy over buying me a TI30 in 1978. Guess
>>>>>> which calculator I'm still using for my grades all these years later?
>>>>>> Elizabeth
>>>>> Those were little power houses. Still love my Casio for stats...
>>>>> Cheryl
>>>> I had the TI30 also. But, fortunately DF got over the cost and slur upon
>>>> his sliderule! I couldn't swing the HP I really wanted. But, like
>>>> Elizabeth, still have some of those college calculators.
>>> Careful, there, lady. Mine was a high school calculator.
>>>
>>> Elizabeth (ducking)
>>>
>> Sorry for seeming to make an age assumption - as I r,d,h . OTOH, I was in
>> university at 15, so.....But, I bow, courteously, to your youth ;^) And I
>> do remember freshman year, in the spring, both HP & TI coming to campus with
>> essentially trunk shows (the joys of being at a mainly engineering & science
>> uni), and the excitement of so many. A girl on my hallway got a TI for
>> about $150 (the HPs were closer to $300 IIRC) and would let me borrow it for
>> chemistry! Our Tas actually made a rule that we could not use them in the
>> weekly lab quiz - I guess they wanted to be sure we understood logs
>> (acid-base thing). But, sophmore year we were allowed to have them for some
>> things. As a scholarship kid, with no, I repeat, no extra money besides my
>> job - I couldn't buy one in the spring. But finally did get one in the
>> fall.
>>
>> Ellice - who is taking a break post dinner before back to the marathon
>>
>
> DH was an engineering student, and bought the first-generation TI
> calculator for about $375, IIRC. Ouch! (I think that's as much as a good
> Guild 12-string guitar was at the time! His other avocation.) The
> calculator used reverse Polish notation - anyone remember that?
>
> sue

> HPs used, and still do in the tech apps, RPN. But, I thought that all the
> Tis used standard. As I remember, I had a bunch of classmates that went for
> the TI because it used standard algebraic, though it didn't have as many
> functions as the HPs did.

> ellice wrote:
>
>> HPs used, and still do in the tech apps, RPN. But, I thought that all the
>> Tis used standard. As I remember, I had a bunch of classmates that went for
>> the TI because it used standard algebraic, though it didn't have as many
>> functions as the HPs did.
>
> My DUH....it was an HP. I don't think the TIs were even out just
> yet..they followed shortly thereafter. This would have been circa 1975.
>
> sue
>