You know you're old when...

TKDbilly · 04-15-2021, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 3798j

You remember the new "personal" TI hand held calculator being advertised for $149.95...$982.00 in today's dollars.

Ok, nerd time ...
In my Engineering school, we would have a calculator speed competition between the TI brand and the HP/RPN brand where each person had to perform a fairly complex equation. Needless to say, HP with RPN came out winning every time.

This is my HP 41CV programmable calculator I bought in 1979. Yes, I still have it and use it. I don't remember the price.

Littlebear · 04-16-2021, 06:21 AM

When I was in HS, we couldn't use those electrical calculators, especially on tests!

Littlebear · 04-16-2021, 07:21 AM

...when you know what his is:

MKSixer · 04-16-2021, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TKDbilly

Ok, nerd time ...
In my Engineering school, we would have a calculator speed competition between the TI brand and the HP/RPN brand where each person had to perform a fairly complex equation. Needless to say, HP with RPN came out winning every time.

This is my HP 41CV programmable calculator I bought in 1979. Yes, I still have it and use it. I don't remember the price.

My dad had the predecessor of this calculator when he was in grad school but his was made for statistics.

At university, I had a TI-30 then moved to a TI-55. Yes. Complete nerd.

MKSixer · 04-16-2021, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Littlebear

...when you know what his is:

America's Cup 12 meter?

MKSixer · 04-16-2021, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Littlebear

When I was in HS, we couldn't use those electrical calculators, especially on tests!

LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!

Littlebear · 04-16-2021, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!

Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?

Esteban · 04-16-2021, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Littlebear

Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?

Math + me =

Littlebear · 04-16-2021, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

America's Cup 12 meter?

Yes! 12 meters were used for the cup until 1987.
The pic is in Greenwich, CT a few years back. We were going out to dump some of my big bro's ashes in the Long Island Sound.

"Freedom (12 meter US-30) is a 12-metre class racing yacht and winner of the 1980 America's Cup, defeating the challenging yacht Australia. Freedom was designed with an alloy rather than a wood hull by Olin Stephens and Bill Langan, and constructed at Minneford Yacht Yard. She was skippered in the Cup by Dennis Conner."

vreihen16 · 04-16-2021, 02:00 PM

I went for a few FCC license exams a few years ago, and the test rules allowed for a basic (non-scientific) calculator or a slide rule. The three-person panel proctoring the test had a combined age older than the USA, and actually had to go verify the test rules because nobody showed up with a slide rule in years. Of course I passed, missing only one question between the two exams.....

Dpc2u · 04-16-2021, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!

Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?

LOL, rarely ever need to, but still can!

UncleWede · 04-16-2021, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

LOL!

Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!

Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?

Yes
BS, Mathematics, University of LaVerne

upstatedoc · 04-16-2021, 04:40 PM

Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?

JJ 911SC · 04-16-2021, 07:12 PM

Your are very old when you use one of them in school...

3.0L · 04-16-2021, 09:39 PM

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Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?

Yes.

I can also write 100 times on the blackboard, "I will not talk in class."

mc-m3 · 04-16-2021, 09:55 PM

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Yes
BS, Mathematics, University of LaVerne

Yes, BS Mathematics, University of Washington. I too can tell people that I have forgotten more math then they ever knew.

M_Six · 04-17-2021, 12:16 AM

When you stand up from your recliner and your back cracks 10 times before you can stand up straight. Oy.

Boomer 2019 · 04-17-2021, 01:11 AM

[QUOTE=Littlebear;27480573]Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper?

[/QUOT

Yes I can...thank you very much. I can also do it in my head (within reason). Now GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN WHIPPERSNAPPER!

Littlebear · 04-17-2021, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

Yes.

I can also write 100 times on the blackboard, "I will not talk in class."

Practice, practice!

wdb · 04-17-2021, 06:45 AM

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You remember the new "personal" TI hand held calculator being advertised for $149.95...$982.00 in today's dollars.

Reverse Polish Notation!

John 070 · 04-17-2021, 09:10 AM

A potus is younger than you are.

A scotus? that's ok!

Forget about ceos....they can be 32-37 and running the largest corporations in the world, so if one is younger than you doesn't mean much...

John 070 · 04-17-2021, 09:11 AM

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Reverse Polish Notation!

oh s*** my HP calculators use them. I have a HP15C (made in USA) and a HP12C (this one was a replica / anniversary edition no way built like my USA 15C)

btw my 15C was $90 brand new. It was on eBay a few years ago in the mid $300's if it had the original box and books....they're like watches and guitars, go up in value over time

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