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tpenfield said:
I had one of those things (Slide Rule) as a freshman in college . . . within a few years, it was all scientific calculators.
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I do remember that around 1972/73 range my Dad got what I remember was a HP35. I played with it but didn't like using RPN to operate it. Later I did do some stuff in FORTH but RPN still slowed me down. I wasn't long after this I bought myself one of the first TI's with the red led numbers.
 
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Have my father in laws in my desk drawer.
He was a NASA engineer for the Gemini projects.

Use Excel and or Mathcad for most of the time now
 
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Had to buy one and learn how to use it for high school chemistry in fall 1973. The department held a fund raiser to buy a digital scientific calculator. By the next year, basic 4-function calculators could be bought at K-Mart for $5.
Later in the year, we learned rudimentary FORTRAN and used punch cards on the computer at the local community college to run the programs we wrote.
 
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DeepCMark58A said:
I am old but not that old, I more into punching in the combination in a calculator that spells shell oil
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Or 58008618 upside down šŸ˜„
When I was a kid my parents went overseas and bought me back the 1st calculator anyone round here had seen ,neon display , teachers at school confiscated it most classes so they could play with it .
 
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four winns 214 said:
Had to buy one and learn how to use it for high school chemistry in fall 1973. The department held a fund raiser to buy a digital scientific calculator. By the next year, basic 4-function calculators could be bought at K-Mart for $5.
Later in the year, we learned rudimentary FORTRAN and used punch cards on the computer at the local community college to run the programs we wrote.
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There it is - punchcards! In our first college engineering classes, we used punchcards and FORTRAN 77, then it was an HP with RPN. I still miss RPN, and sometimes try to use it on my little hand-held computer (aka "phone").
 
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