I would love to have that calc, not just as a momory, but as another for my starting collection. See the poll.

CRAP! The bid is already up to $30!
And it has only been 5 hours!!!!

Yeah, it was at $5 until I decided I might want it. Tee hee.

I should really update my staff web page.

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Phil

I wanted to bid on it, too, because a $1 price tag is going to be appealing to *anyone* for something like that, but I decided that a staff member probably shouldn't win the auction - or even be allowed to bid. I want this to go to a reader; this auction is, after all, for the readers.

And I should update my staff page as well, yeah. It still says I'm undeclared at NU; not only did I change majors twice, not only did I already graduate, but I've finished grad work at another school.

I don't even know what I'd say on it.

You know, I thought maybe we shouldn't be bidding on it either (accusations of running up the price and whatnot)... but I'd like to own it :)

Ah well, I don't think I want to own it for more than $30, and I already spent too much on ebay this week.

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Phil

PS: You wrote my staff bio. I think before you were a staffer. Madness.

I see where you're coming from. I would like to own it, too, but I guess I'm sort of averse to owning something with my own autograph on it. :-p

Nonetheless, I'm sure there's someone in the community who puts more value on it than I do.

LIKE ME!!!!!!!!

Want me to write your next one? I promise it will be totally absurd and misrepresentative! :D

So YOU are merthsoft?
WHY??????????

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or are you ld_spartan?

Of course, I should look at your handle: Idspartan!

CALM DOWN!!!!!

Woah, enough posts in a row...

Just one more....

He's not Merthsoft - Merthsoft is also known as "CDI"

who?

Err, merthsoft is shaun mcfall, CDI is fred sparks

Argh, you're right about that. My bad.

Sweet, I for one am going to bid on this just to show it off to my friends, hope it doesn't get too expensive.

i need this calculator.

now everyone on this website must give me money so i can buy it

Are you crazy?
Or at least you have to be joking

You will get used to his insane utterings eventually...

I have seen a lot of them

they might be insane, but right now, i'm desparate.

care to donate?

<cough>Fricking insane</caugh> I think you have a few buttons missing on your remote control. Also why would I pay you to get this 82, when your much more n00bish than I am!?!?

-I think you have a few buttons missing on your remote control.-
More like a few pennies short of a dollar!
LOL!

thats a good one

i want the ti82, even though it's not very powerful, only 6mhz cpu, and doesn't even have flash application support. My calculator is waaay better, but this one is "ticalc history".

ps. if this one is a piece of calculator history, why not the ti81, ti's first calculator? i know an adult who's over 30, and used one of those in high school. i want the ti82, but i have absolutely no use for it, but for decoration.

shame on you for taking me seriously!

Ya, take you seriously, that is a joke

Are you two both retards? Kindly do us all a favor and stfu.

[This has been a test of the emergency Michael_V Censoring System (MVCS). Thank you for your participation] ;)

yes

I am not quite sure Kerm, check back in a la la la...

i'm envious that you have a lot of calculators

I have only four, that is pitiful compared to some of the guys here, I work hard for the money. How many do you have?

Only one............ WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

but it is a good one that i got for christmas

I have only one graphing calc: a TI-84+SE, and two solar ones: a TI-36 X and a TI-30 SLR...the TI-30SLR is SUPER OLD! My parents use it in highschool or collage or something like that!

that's nothing I own a calc that my parents used in college it isn't even called a calc, on the box it says super slide rule. See link for a picture.

At least it has more than four functions....I have a couple like that.

My digital calculator usually does the job. can draw graphs and everything. in color too. has ten digits. twenty if you count toes. If that one fails i can always use my slide rule, ti-80, three scientific calculators, all are solar, but one has a battery also. (i only bought the battery one). If all these don't do the job i can bring out the ti84+. that one I also bought. the rest just sort of appeared in my possession.
I think they're multiplying.

Since when has a calculator not been digital? Oh wait, forgot the abacus and the human brain.

...and some of the really old mechanical ones...

Yeah, but if you interpret "digital" as "not analog", then only the human brain is not digital. In most cases. ;)

i think that most people interpret digital as some form of perjection like cathode ray tubes (old tv and computer screens) or a digital clock or digital thermomator. thus an abucus, your brain, archemedes (i think it was his?) mechanical calculator would not be digital.

it is Pascal's pascaline

Just because people see a CRT and think "digital" doesn't mean it *is* digital, though. All electronic calculators, as far as I know, have been digital, since it would be a serious pain to make an analog one (please correct me if one of the first calculators was analog or something).

"Pascaline
1642 France

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) France, develops a mechanism to calculate with 8 figures and carrying of 10's , 100's, and 1000's etc.

The machine is called the 'Pascaline'."

Link^^
I would call that a calculator burntfuse.

Of course that's a calculator, but it's mechanical. I said that there are probably no electronic calculators that aren't digital. (Non-electronic devices are not "analog", by the way)

(Adding to an already-long thread...)

You are right, I believe, that there isn't any electronic calculator that is not digital.

However, the Pascaline calculator is also digital, even though it is mechanical, in the same way that an "electronic" calculator is still digital. Almost anything that operates on or with discrete units/digits can be considered "digital". Everything else is analog. That means even an abacus is digital, but a brain is analog.

Ok,
1) Digital as defined by Webster is: "of, relating to, or being data in the form of binary digits" and also " characterized by electronic and especially computerized technology" (Link ^^)
2)I don't see how the Pascaline falls under those definitions.

again I site Webster: "being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities" I would say that the Pascaline operates with varying physical quantities.

Let's see, I have a TI-83, TI-85, TI-89 Titanium, and my personal favorite to add the black powder to this conversation, an HP-48GX!

traitor

Actually, my current favorite is my TI-89 Titanium.

same here

except it's my only calculator

I don't have it, but I really want it!
If I did, it would definately be my favorite!

I like my Voyage 200. The big display is great for graphs, although sadly my V200 has been used a lot less than it used to now that my work is more suited to more powerful programs than the V200 can run, such as GNU R and Octave.

ahem!! cough...ti89 titanium....cough

What did the calc sell for?

What calc are you talking about?
The Ti-89 Tianium goes for around $160
the 82 that was up for auction went for $66

i got mine at target for $150 (plus tax)