Calculator Wars at your School

[DrewNicholson]

I was in high school 75-79. A good friend and I had the same calcs and kept looking at what we could afford in programmable. He moved to a different school so I had to seek like minded folks elsewhere.
The closest I can get to a "war" is I upgraded from a TI-30 to a 57 (although I have a very clear memory of using a 58, which is kind of odd). And another fellow was very clear about the superiority of his HP 25C, due to the continuous memory. Which was a challenging argument to try to win.

The job I had would have paid for me to have a 59, but I spent all my money on my girlfriend and then other stuff after we broke up. I ended up buying a used SR-52 for college which I eventually replaced with the 11C. All the other engineers (I switched to comp sci from Cpr E) had 41's ...

I think I had all of two discussions on the merits of different calculators, one in high school, one in college. In both cases, I wanted what the other person had, so there wasn't really much argument!