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February 25, 2004
Programmable Fun
Reading about how kids are using their mobiles to cheat at school (via Erik) lead me to search for a picture of the first programmable calculator I had - and here it is. The Sharp EL5813. I remember having one of the first in the class (together with Frank) back in the early 80's and those were the days when the teachers didn't realize where the advantage of having a programmable calculator was (even if mine only had 30 programmable steps). Until we finished the maths exams in half the time it took everyone else. After that they would demand that we delete any programs we may have entered into the calculators before the exam started.
Posted by Matthew at February 25, 2004 09:35 PM
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Those were the days... squeezing tiny programs into calculators with volatile memory (the days before CMOS) in the break before the exam, fighting about who solved quadratic equations with fewer steps..
Posted by: Frank Koehntopp at February 25, 2004 09:57 PM