Your First Handheld?

[david sanz]

My first calculator was a Toshiba HB-101 that my parents bought when I entered highschool in 1983. I still have it, but it does not work any more.

Incidentally, I remember a girl at highschool who kept borrowing my calculator almost everyday. I was shocked the day we took the first exam, when she showed up carrying a bulky LED display scientific (probably some TI model)

At the time neither my parents nor me were aware of trigonometric functions or logarithms. So next year back we went to the shop to buy a Texas Instruments 30 Galaxy, wich I chose mainly because I though the landscape layout was cool

A few years later I needed to do linear regresions, so I swapped my TI for a Casio fx100c from a relative of mine.

Finally, the following year I had to buy a Casio fx850p. I had to buy it because everybody in the class seemed to have one, and because apparently professors felt it was okay to cheat in exams using data stored in the calculator memory. So you had to buy it if you did not want to find you in a dissadvantage.