My fellow accounting students and I, in the mid 80s, learned that TI was /not/ the way to go, which is why we all bought HPs. I finally had to buy a new HP after the last one died from 20 years of heavy usage.
I remember those big, honking, 40-button TI calculator that ALL the kids in Jr. High wanted (even though they didn’t know what 1/2 of the buttons were for)!
The funny thing is, a kid who didn’t know any better would think the last panel was completely about calculators. It works surprisingly well both ways.
I used to have a ten foot long bamboo slide rule that was used for teaching hanging from a wall in my living room. A friend that was a design engineer was over with his 10 year old grandson when the grandson saw it asked grandpa what’s that where upon grandpa who was at the time was taking a large hit of ice cold Bud and spit it all over my wall.
Somewhere in the mid ‘80s I bought a brand new Commodore 64, thinking it was the best there was for the money at the time. A few short months later it was made obsolete by the brand new 128. Now I have have a phone that is orders of magnitude more powerful, and it’s obsolete. Change is the only constant.
TI used to build most of those in Lubbock, TX and had thousands of employees. The run of the high-end TI calculators was actually very long, well over a decade.
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
Ah, poor old slide rule; still thinks he’ll be able to make a comeback! Shades of Sunset Boulevard….
dunner99rok about 11 years ago
My fellow accounting students and I, in the mid 80s, learned that TI was /not/ the way to go, which is why we all bought HPs. I finally had to buy a new HP after the last one died from 20 years of heavy usage.
edclectic about 11 years ago
Yet it still computes…
thirdguy about 11 years ago
My slide rule knew he was washed up. He got a sine from above!
Wren Fahel about 11 years ago
I remember those big, honking, 40-button TI calculator that ALL the kids in Jr. High wanted (even though they didn’t know what 1/2 of the buttons were for)!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Texas_Instruments_TI-30_electronic_calculator.JPG/150px-Texas_Instruments_TI-30_electronic_calculator.JPG
katzenbooks45 about 11 years ago
I’m a business major. You do the math.
katina.cooper about 11 years ago
When the batteries run down, he’ll be back.
gamer2k4 about 11 years ago
The funny thing is, a kid who didn’t know any better would think the last panel was completely about calculators. It works surprisingly well both ways.
tlynnch about 11 years ago
Calculators! What an antique. No need for calculators now, our phones and computers handle that chore.
Caldonia about 11 years ago
How come my microchips are shot even though they’re organic and totally free of gluten??
RoninBob about 11 years ago
I used to have a ten foot long bamboo slide rule that was used for teaching hanging from a wall in my living room. A friend that was a design engineer was over with his 10 year old grandson when the grandson saw it asked grandpa what’s that where upon grandpa who was at the time was taking a large hit of ice cold Bud and spit it all over my wall.
stevetalley7497 about 11 years ago
Somewhere in the mid ‘80s I bought a brand new Commodore 64, thinking it was the best there was for the money at the time. A few short months later it was made obsolete by the brand new 128. Now I have have a phone that is orders of magnitude more powerful, and it’s obsolete. Change is the only constant.
Robert Pratt about 11 years ago
TI used to build most of those in Lubbock, TX and had thousands of employees. The run of the high-end TI calculators was actually very long, well over a decade.