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TI-58C and TI-59
03-30-2019, 12:35 PM
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RE: TI-58C and TI-59
Hello Gene!

(03-29-2019 09:58 PM)Gene Wrote:  I believe the TI-66 despite having alpha key legends in programs and LCD and two-three years younger was a BIG step back in speed compared to the 58/59.

Don't remember _that_ kind of a difference... I have a Ti66 somewhere, but probably, as with many boring calculators in my collection, only did a quick test for functionality, removed the batteries and threw it in the "boring calculators" box ;-)

As already written, my Ti-59 never gave me the feeling of being very slow. Until sometimes around 1982 the guy next to me at a univeristy lecture pulled out a brand new Casio fx 601 (or 602). We had some numerical differential equation excercise to do and I remember that this Casio thing took as many seconds to solve the problem than my Ti59 required minutes. And he had plenty of memory left, the batteries lasted for a year and it would not lose it's memory when being turned off.

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TI-58C and TI-59 - Xorand - 03-27-2019, 08:46 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Maximilian Hohmann - 03-28-2019, 10:09 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Garth Wilson - 03-29-2019, 01:46 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Maximilian Hohmann - 03-29-2019, 01:54 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Thomas Okken - 03-29-2019, 05:50 PM
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RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Massimo Gnerucci - 03-29-2019, 07:31 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Garth Wilson - 04-01-2019, 02:24 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - toml_12953 - 03-31-2019, 02:13 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Garth Wilson - 04-01-2019, 02:18 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Dave Britten - 03-29-2019, 01:02 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - grsbanks - 03-29-2019, 06:37 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Maximilian Hohmann - 03-29-2019, 08:27 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Gene - 03-29-2019, 09:58 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Maximilian Hohmann - 03-30-2019 12:35 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - grsbanks - 03-30-2019, 12:54 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - rprosperi - 04-01-2019, 12:19 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Gene - 04-01-2019, 01:34 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Thomas Okken - 04-01-2019, 02:36 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - xerxes - 04-01-2019, 01:12 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Xorand - 04-07-2019, 01:20 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - badaze - 04-01-2019, 01:08 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Gene - 03-30-2019, 02:13 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Maximilian Hohmann - 03-30-2019, 02:44 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Massimo Gnerucci - 03-30-2019, 05:27 PM
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RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - ijabbott - 04-18-2019, 08:59 PM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - Maximilian Hohmann - 04-19-2019, 08:39 AM
RE: TI-58C and TI-59 - badaze - 03-30-2019, 11:25 PM
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