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> Thank you very much for any nice idea, story or of course comparison |
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> in advance!i :) |
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Well, I still have a TI-86 calculator with a Z80 processor. Of |
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course, even these are extremely mocked these days (eg |
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http://xkcd.com/768/) |
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My best friend in high school had programmer parents, and lots of |
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computer magazines from the 80s. I know we found some computer with a |
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Z80 processor from 1980 for $2000. I bought my calculator in 1998 for |
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about $100. Using a random inflation calculator, the same computer |
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would have cost $4000 at that time. |
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Who knows about specs and other stuff, but you said you wanted |
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stories, not science. |
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~daid |
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PS Actually my calculator is MIA right now. Maybe I left it in the US |
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or Canada...or it's packed in some bag in Japan? Whatever people can |
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say, I miss my calculator. |