Topic: Syntax, I recently acquired a 1979 vintage TI-59 programmable calculator and PC-100 print cradle.
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #46,180
Like pictured. What programs can/should I write for it?FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #609,575
wait, does that thing have a display?
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 48 seconds later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,576
Syntax designed that.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,577
@609,575 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Yes the calculator does have a 10 digit red LED display. It can be detached from the docking station whereupon it becomes a pocket (albeit bulky by today's standards — it's over an inch thick) calculator. The printer of course can print whatever's on the calculator.
This was a $299 calculator in 1977. It's just a regular scientific calculator which you can write tiny little programs for using the keypad.
@previous (C)
So he's exactly the man to ask.
Yes the calculator does have a 10 digit red LED display. It can be detached from the docking station whereupon it becomes a pocket (albeit bulky by today's standards — it's over an inch thick) calculator. The printer of course can print whatever's on the calculator.
This was a $299 calculator in 1977. It's just a regular scientific calculator which you can write tiny little programs for using the keypad.
@previous (C)
So he's exactly the man to ask.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,579
@previous (A)
You do realize he won't answer your question, right? He'll just spew illegible gibberish about calculators, then claim he invented the damn thing.
You do realize he won't answer your question, right? He'll just spew illegible gibberish about calculators, then claim he invented the damn thing.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,580
@previous (D)
I'll spew you in a minute if you don't shut the fuck up and help me wrap my head around vintage TI programming.
I'll spew you in a minute if you don't shut the fuck up and help me wrap my head around vintage TI programming.
Anonymous D replied with this 11 years ago, 37 seconds later, 26 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,581
Syntax joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 16 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,588
I no nada about that calculator - My choice was always HP - One in photo had a lot and I mean a lot of features wayyyy back then. The magnetic strip storage n reader was kinda not all that well designed and still laffing at memory of the thing jamming up on complex trig problems and my call to factory and they told me to look at a page in the manual which said complex trig problems wood in fact be a problem calculator wood/could jam on. Back they there were two camps much like Apple vs MS - Texas Instruments vs HP - As a major fan of HP text equipment I ended up favoring HP over TI
Still have my calculator in storage - battery has probably corroded the guts.
Just wondering why OP wood mess with such a device given one can go Rasberry PI - dw's most fav playtoy and at the recent Qualcomm robots thing for local kids Rasberry PI was a major choice for projects.
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Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 57 seconds later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,594
@609,588 (Syntax)
Is HP a 15 minute Zimmer frame hobble from the dilapidated apartment you rent and pretend is a beachfront mansion?
Is HP a 15 minute Zimmer frame hobble from the dilapidated apartment you rent and pretend is a beachfront mansion?
Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 15 seconds later, 48 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,595
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 5 seconds later, 55 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,598
@609,588 (Syntax)
Because for me there's some charm in actual retro technology. Also it was free in a junk pile(!)
Because for me there's some charm in actual retro technology. Also it was free in a junk pile(!)
Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #609,599
@previous (A)
Actually I agree with you about something old as a play toy (no pun intended)
I have in theory only, a lot of old computers like the TRS-80 - Old apple this and that in storage in Santa Monica. I suspect by now keys on many devices which fare not so much so well in salt air - I might have more junk then wot was working when last in storage.
Remember finding a very old tube radio buried in a plastic bag in a basement back in 70's - Turned it on and shock of shock it not only worked - the station it was tuned to had an old time radio program -
Actually I agree with you about something old as a play toy (no pun intended)
I have in theory only, a lot of old computers like the TRS-80 - Old apple this and that in storage in Santa Monica. I suspect by now keys on many devices which fare not so much so well in salt air - I might have more junk then wot was working when last in storage.
Remember finding a very old tube radio buried in a plastic bag in a basement back in 70's - Turned it on and shock of shock it not only worked - the station it was tuned to had an old time radio program -