This matches my recollection too. I had a calculator, I used it almost exclusively for "wasting" time programming in class, I don't believe I ever used it in an

This matches my recollection too. I had a calculator, I used it almost exclusively for "wasting" time programming in class, I don't believe I ever used it in an exam. While the graphing calculators were available we weren't told we needed them so, being on a tight family budget, I didn't have one. My sister, a few years later was told that she had to have a graphing calculator, which she claims she never used