Your First Handheld?

[Mike Morrow]

(05-10-2014 11:22 PM)Dale Reed Wrote:  Dad had a TI SR-50 for work -- that was a sweet looking machine, and I never did like the black-and-gold style of the later TI calculators (SR-51A, TI-59) etc. as much as the blue/silver theme of the original SR-50.

That's exactly what I thought. After buying a SR-50 in 1974, I bought a SR-51A a year later. That was a much more versatile machine, but I hated the clunky color scheme and other aspects of TI's industrial design for the SR-51A and all later TI machines. I suspect that some of that gang must have gone over to HP by the mid-1980's, judging from how terrible the industrial design of the HP 28C/S, -38G, -48all, and Pioneers were, not least the colors chosen for case and keyboard, and that awful awful clamshell design.