Nov 1, 2011

Texas Instruments Programmable Calculators + some

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Here are the machines I grew up with. Well, I was already grown up when they came along – but nonetheless I ‘grew’ with them. They became very useful tools and before home computers came along – this was very high tech.

My first Programmable was the Texas Instruments TI-57. I bought it at Sears back in 1977 for $50. It had 50 step programming and came with a fine book of instruction called ‘Making Tracks Into Programming’.

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Well, that was pretty cool for 1977. Over 30 years have passed since then – but the TI-57 still lives on. Here is my perfect condition and fine working TI-57 today along with the awesome instruction manual, ‘Making Tracks’

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