Re: what did you do when you were 17?
When I went to college my dad gave me a Polaroid camera and I already had a Argus C3 35mm camera my grandmother gave me (how she had it I have no idea) and one of the Kodak 110 camera.
And my dad also gave me a TI calculator that had the basic 4 functions on it that must cost him around $100 at the time. I was kind of the laughing stock with the rest of my engineering classmates at the time since they had the slide rule calculators and I didn't. Did buy one later that fall when someone from the school was having a special, I think it was the Texas Instruments SR-72, cost around $80-90 at the time, last me about 4 years. Back then the debate was TI calculators vs HP calculators sort of like the IBM/Mac debate of today.
Last night I picked up a TI-30Xa from Wal-Mart for about $10, only because I might need a spare (already have 2 other TI-30 of different types around the house).
When I went to college my dad gave me a Polaroid camera and I already had a Argus C3 35mm camera my grandmother gave me (how she had it I have no idea) and one of the Kodak 110 camera.
And my dad also gave me a TI calculator that had the basic 4 functions on it that must cost him around $100 at the time. I was kind of the laughing stock with the rest of my engineering classmates at the time since they had the slide rule calculators and I didn't. Did buy one later that fall when someone from the school was having a special, I think it was the Texas Instruments SR-72, cost around $80-90 at the time, last me about 4 years. Back then the debate was TI calculators vs HP calculators sort of like the IBM/Mac debate of today.
Last night I picked up a TI-30Xa from Wal-Mart for about $10, only because I might need a spare (already have 2 other TI-30 of different types around the house).
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