Friends,<\/p>\n
It’s been a little while since I wrote about the pretty dead and not alive Toshiba T1000. I think that there’s probably somebody who wants the bits that remain, like the display, case and floppy drive, so I was thinking about selling. There’s a lot of other stuff to sell as well, like clamshell iBook batteries, Powerbook G3 pieces, and other computer stuff.<\/p>\n
What I’ve turned my attention to at the moment is completing the handheld calculator wing of Mus\u00e9e de l’Informatique Anciens<\/i>. Sure, I’ve got Rockwell four-bangers, Casio melody calculators, and a model that didn’t feel the need to include a decimal point. They’ve got red LEDs, LCD displays, and the collection includes my very first calculator—a green LED Casio four-function. It’s my favorite, but the next one was a gem that was extremely popular…<\/p>\n
The Texas Instruments TI-30 digital slide rule. Yeah, that’s right. They used that marketing to differentiate this student-focused model from the pro-level “scientific” models. Mine came in a package with a great book that I read over and over again, The Great International Math On Keys Book<\/a>. I went from junior high pre-algebra failure to college math major by paying attention to the processes in this book (and a few others).<\/p>\n I still have the book, but I don’t know where the calculator went. Time to find a replacement, I think.<\/p>\n They made a bazillion of them, so it should be easy to find another one.<\/p>\n Your pal,<\/p>\n – bob<\/p>\n UPDATE: Replacement TI-30 has been ordered and is on its way! Very exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friends, It’s been a little while since I wrote about the pretty dead and not alive Toshiba T1000. I think that there’s probably somebody who wants the bits that remain, like the display, case and floppy drive, so I was thinking about selling. There’s a lot of other stuff to sell as well, like clamshell … <\/p>\n