[ale] DIY Graphing Calculator Is Built From Open Source Hardware

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Yep. That's the correct one. My memory has apparently also gone the way of
the batteries in that thing...

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Alright Jim,
>
> You made me google the TI-99-4a to see what it was.
>
> I'm only finding old computers, not a behemoth of a calculator.
>
> (I had a TI-59 back in highschool:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59  Is that what you meant?)
>
> Greg
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I eventually disposed of my TI-99-4a card programmable after I discovered
> > the rechargeable battery pack had leaked and no more were available. I
> had
> > one of the engineering modules for it as well.
> >
> > I was _THE_ alpha nerd in high school with that behemoth!
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri August 6 2010, dude-aaron-omy wrote:
> >> > My daughter is starting graduate school in Public Health Advocacy
> >> > at Columbia University this fall.  Apparently this will involve some
> >> > statistics classes and she just called home to ask if we can hunt
> >> > down the TI-83 that is buried somewhere in the piles of stuff in
> >> > her old room.
> >>
> >> I have a TI-81 right here in my hands... 4 dead batteries that have
> >> probably
> >> been in there for 10 years..
> >>
>
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