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2000s here, junior high to college on an 86 and then an 89 titanium - I remember when the 84 came out! It wasn't much of an improvement on the 83. But I learned
by silencio 12y ago
2000s here, junior high to college on an 86 and then an 89 titanium - I remember when the 84 came out! It wasn't much of an improvement on the 83. But I learned a decent amount in my more basic math classes just by writing apps for my calc when I wasn't writing games. My husband and I rediscover our old calculators once in a while (83 silver, blasphemy!) and while they are pretty outdated, they were well built for what they were meant for.
I assume one of the big reasons they're still around is because they're not as useful as phones are, which is a big "benefit" for test taking and for minimizing distractions.
- allegory 12y agoThey're more useful because they have buttons too. It's virtually impossible to accurately enter numbers and expressions on a glass display with no tactile feedback.
- ghaff 12y agoIt's not that bad; I mostly use an app to do quick calculations if I'm not at a computer. But I agree that for any real number crunching, it's worth using a physical calculator.
- jcurbo 12y agoYeah, I upgraded to an 89 in college and then had a math professor who did all sorts of programming with them. I still have the 89 and my wife has her 83. I can't bear to get rid of them :) I think another reason they're still around is that there's just a lot of material written for them, decades and decades worth of programs and instruction notes.