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To: P.O.E.

We were not/are not wealthy, but I don’t remember any calculators in my classes in high school. Graduated in 1966.

I remember using the Wang programmable calculators in college, graduated in 1970. They were pretty nice for statistics.


16 posted on 01/16/2014 7:05:56 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

Nothing matches the drama of bashing numbers into those old calculators, except of course the older ones with the “chaaching” handles.

I still have my old clock radio with those flip-over numbers (clock part doesn’t flip, but the radio part does).

When we moved into our house a few years back, the previous owners left behind an old microwave (with the dial). We kept using it until, while watching GSN we saw it being offered as a grand prize on Match Game ‘77. My wife put her foot down at that point.


20 posted on 01/16/2014 7:16:53 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Texas Fossil

In 1975 I took a graduate course in statistics and in the middle of the mid-term my calculator ran out of power and I had to complete the t-square and sum of the square calculations by hand. Got a B+. Today a calculator malfunction would qualify for a redo.


35 posted on 01/16/2014 8:05:12 AM PST by AU72
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