In the early 80's the Army used an HP TI-59 to calculate Field Artillery missions. http://www.ti59.com/ti59.jpg Matt Graham wrote: Jim wrote: >Lynn Newton wrote: >> But I'm sure there are a number of subscribers to this list >> who can one-up me with "I remember when" stories, by margins >> of several years at least. > I don't know if this would be in the one up category, but I remember > being a high school freshman in 1981 and spending time after school in > the math teacher's room messing around with his TRS80 with a whopping > 4KB RAM and running programs stored on cassette tape. 1982. Casio FX700-P, 15-char 1-line LCD, bastardized BASIC dialect, 4K RAM (I think). It was also 6" by 2.5" by 0.2", which made it possible to use it as a calculator (good thing, as it wasn't a very good general-purpose computer.) Also, 20 years after my father bought it, it still worked and was in regular use. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ------------------------ Keith Smith (480) 584-4772 PHP Programming --------------------------------- Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.