[sdiy] math question - somewhat OT

[Oren Leavitt]

<Yes, THAT thread!>
Oh yeah?!?

Back in *my* time, we were lucky if enough interstellar dust gathered 
together to give us a dang body to inhabit.
Even luckier if it had suitable appendages on it to base a number system on.
An then the Borg...yes them...if they picked up on whatever intelligence 
we managed to throw together, we were food! Shhhllluuurp....(Bastards!)
</Yes, THAT thread!>


Anyway, I remember the old TIs - I think there was a model that stored 
programs on magnetic strips that a little motorized reader would pull 
through a slot on the side of the calculator.

I bought an HP15C back in 1983 and became an RPN geek. I still have it 
today and it works great.

Oren

Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
> --- Magnus Danielson <cfmd at bredband.net> wrote:
> 
> Larry, <said>
> 
>>>I feel old.  In 1975 or 1976 when the price
>>
>>dropped from $300 to $150, I
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>>>just had to have one.  I still own it.  How long
>>
>>since it has been turned
>>
>>>on.  I cannot even remember.
>>
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> Magnus said...
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> 
>>You are old. I didn't even have a calculator back
>>then. It really was finger-
>>counting back then!
> 
> 
> Oh THIS thread again ???  ok
> 
> We used rocks arranged in piles to represent
> the objects we wanted to count (usually small
> rodents and reptiles).
> 
> We tried to use the objetcs diretly but they kept
> wandering away...
> 
> Oog  (early pleistocene)
> 
> H^) harry
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