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

[Greg Freemyer]

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..
>>