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Cool - I have one for sale on CL. I'd appreciate some insight if I have it priced correctly.

http://longisland.craigslist.org/ele/3857819422.html


Thanks.

Rogue

I am still using a Texas Instruments TI-60 from 1989. Never had to so much as replace the battery!

Bet you'll get it. If I needed a new one, there is no telling what I'd pay.

Just an SX.....

I don't use them so I don't know the implications of the different designations. Am I in the ballpark? Is SX short for SUX?

S series has a slower processor and less on board memory than the G series. The SX, however, is expandable.
Most professionals would opt for the GX.
As such, your price seems on the upper end.

Thanks Mc

Lord, Mc.

We've hit both nerd and snob status in the same thread.

Oh, just an SX?

whaaatttttevvvverrrr....

RPN sucks!

I'll play.

University of Missouri-Rolla in 1993 required incoming freshmen to purchase the 48G. So, got one and still using it to this day.

The stack feature is awesome and the RPN makes sure you'll never have anyone else 'borrowing' your calculator.

About 9 years ago had the first one started acting up. Went to Ebay and got another one just like it.

Worst part about being required to buy one for school? [bleep] trig/algebra instructors would give you questions that the HP couldn't graph and have to do by hand. WFT to that.

Oh Hell.... Here ya go.... I used to haveta use this dang thing every day. Still keep it in my desk drawer and play with it every now an then just to see if I can still remember how to use it. Whipped it out the other day and used it to calculate some stuff and absolutely amazed a young engineering student in my office that was working on a project with me.



I've still got the box it came in.

I had a TI SR-50 that I bought in 1974 for around $175. Big money back then. Had to drive all the way from Sheffield, Alabama to Memphis, Tennessee to buy it. Some essobee stole it off my desk back in the 80's.

Yeah, I loved those graphing calculators when they came out. Made my life so much easier for certain design jobs.

+1

I simply can't use anything else.

Have a 15C at home from my college days and a 35s here at work.

i was wondering when someone would whoop out the sliderule.

My old physics prof had an asbestos one, I'm sure.

Otherwise, it would have burst into flames, as fast as he was workin' it.

I can't believe how many folks here know RPN.....

My faith in humanity is restored.

Anyone have an 11C for sale I'd be interested. My LCD is done in mine and can't read half.

Was a required purchase for engineering school back in 88'

I have both HP and TI, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.....

I was down with ya till I read your sig.

EVERYONE, and I mean everyone, needs a 30-06.....

bought me one of these back in the early 80's. boroke the LCD about 6 yrs ago in a fit when i slammed it across my desk. found fixthatcalc.com and got it all fixed up!

Don't know anything about the above, but I did learn how to push an older model of these!

LOL!! Yeah! I had a couple of profs that were that fast with it too. I've got about a half a drawer full of 'em at home. The really nice bamboo ones are sure slicker than that aluminum Pickett, but they don't hold their settings as well and get damaged in the field more easily. I wish I had my grandfather's old Dietzgen slide rule. It was a work of art, along with his complete Dietzgen drafting set. They were from the 30's.