Old calculators...
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I have a similarly venerable calculator, a Casio FX 83. Still being sold as new and must have been around for 20 years.
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meh, I've still got and use my fx-7000g
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Just switched on my Sharp EL-5808. On its second set of batteries since 1979. :cool: /ravi
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I have a similarly venerable calculator, a Casio FX 83. Still being sold as new and must have been around for 20 years.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
OriginalGriff wrote:
I just realized I never have replaced the batteries
I'm waiting for Henry to turn up and say he has never had to change the beads on his ....! :-D
Ali
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OriginalGriff wrote:
I just realized I never have replaced the batteries
I'm waiting for Henry to turn up and say he has never had to change the beads on his ....! :-D
Ali
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:laugh: I see you are stealing Trigger's material ..... Rodney! (Be sure to think about that ;) )
Ali
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
I replaced the batteries for my Casio fx-5000F[^] last year. I still have the manual on my bookshelf, but I think it's also available online.
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:laugh: I see you are stealing Trigger's material ..... Rodney! (Be sure to think about that ;) )
Ali
Alison P wrote:
I see you are stealing Trigger's material
We'll have to send Del and Rodders after him, in Batman & Robin kit.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
I still have my TI-59 programmable with the little magnetic strips. It must be over 30 years old now. I also a couple of program modules for it and they still work, too. Haven't used it in a while, the batteries are shot, but it still works with the charger. I wonder if you can still get the magnetic strips?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I still have my TI-59 programmable with the little magnetic strips. It must be over 30 years old now. I also a couple of program modules for it and they still work, too. Haven't used it in a while, the batteries are shot, but it still works with the charger. I wonder if you can still get the magnetic strips?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
I had one of those when it first came out! I sold it at Uni when I started to run out of money (and because the magnetic strips were crap :laugh: )
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
I wonder if you can still get the magnetic strips?
I doubt it! You could try fleaBay - I just did and nothing except batteries and fix kits for the card reader. Can you remember how to program it? I definitely can't...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
My CASIO Fx-880P was my best partner for a long time. Made a lot of software for that one... some sort of VB descendant, very easy to master :) Cool was the way to pass that software between them. We used 2 simple wires and just waited for it to pass the information through. There was a xpto cable but was too expensive and far less geeky :) Very nice calculator.
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Just the other day my girlfriend and I were visiting the city's Japanese Immigration Museum. In one room there was this showcase, which had on display various products introduced into our country by Japanese companies. At one point, she pointed to some ugly contraption composed of a numeric keyboard, a small display and an embedded printer, and said "hey, I remember that one from when I was little! What's its name again?" To which I responded, "it's a calculator, dear". Has it really been this long, that early professional computing devices aren't even recognizable by average people anymore?
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
TI-35, bought new in '83 for electronincs math. Still use it, still has the original batteries. It has a formula memory feature that I used to "remember" phone numbers of of girls I'd meet at the pub. ________________________________ "It was broke, so I fixed it"
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
I still have my HP-65 (bought ~'74 for $795) programmed that little beasty to death. Functional, but like all HP card readers, the rollers have turned to jelly so I have to program it manually. I have the HP-41CX (owned all of the HP-41C family, -41C, -41CV), my HP-41C with Quad memory model died this year after one of the cats knocked it off the table (sniff). But I have almost all the peripherials for it. Printer (direct connect and HP-IL), HP-IL interface, cassette tape storage, 3.5" floppy disc drive, ThinkJet printer, video interface, parallel interface, serial interface, plotter module, multimeter, and card reader (needs repair, see above). It gets used when I'm not using my HP-48GX. Not to mention my HP-16C(s, I have two) for doing base conversions. Used extensively during my Apple II days, not so much since. RPL - the only way to do calculator math!
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11
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I think I bought my HP 11 in 1987 - currently on it's second set of batteries I think.
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
HP 15C from 1984 - a schweeet machine! Changed the cells twice in that time.
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Oh yeah, almost forgot. I still have my Post 1447 student's slide rule from sometime in the early 70's!
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Oh yeah, almost forgot. I still have my Post 1447 student's slide rule from sometime in the early 70's!
:-O I still have both of mine...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
My old HP-28C is sitting on my desk, bought in 1985. Only on its second set of batteries. Still Going strong. Amazing!
-Bryan My latest programming adventure was coding a facial recognition system for the Harry Potter Forbidden Journey Ride at Universal Studios Florida. I love my job.
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I have an old - and I realised today it must be nearly twenty years since I bought it - Sharp EL-5020 programmable calculator, and I realised I had forgotten how to put it into Hex mode. No problem, I'll look on t'interweb for a manual. Found it, no hassle. By then though, I had worked it out (press the button marked "->HEX", it wasn't complex, just Monday morning). Then I noticed in the results was fleaBay - and sure enough, brand new, was this calculator. How likely is it that a twenty-year-old piece of ephemera (and calculators are indeed such) would be working now, much less still buy-able? Even more, I just realized I never have replaced the batteries, and it isn't solar powered. :omg:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
When I was a kid my dad used an old mechanical "adding machine" in his business. It was a foot and a half long and almost a foot wide. Weighed a ton. You pushed the buttons you wanted (1st the numbers, then plus, minus or equals) and then grabbed the 12-inch handle and pulled - like a one-armed bandit at Vegas. Had a mechanical numeric display that rolled the numbers and also printed on cash register paper. Must've had a million moving parts inside. Then my mom, who was tired of all the hard labor working the thing, got a calculator. It had a red LED display and was about an inch thick (don't remember the brand). Suddenly the adding machine was a bench warmer and the calculator was the new star of the office. That was in the early 70's. Dad is gone and mom is long since retired. But she still has that same calculator and uses it to do her bills.
