TI-58/59 Leisure Library plus on auction site

[striegel]

This showed up on Monday on the shopgoodwill auction site, almost too hard to find.

If anybody is looking to add the Leisure Library module and magnetic cards to their collection, here's a chance. I do wonder though, will the magnetic cards still be readable after all this time?
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The auction ends on Monday, June 8th, 2015. There are no bids so far and they're asking for a minimum of $7.00.

It appears there are some additional functional cards without the module, since one photo shows 'Determinant, Matrix, and Simul. Eq.'.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

(06-05-2015 02:55 PM)striegel Wrote:  I do wonder though, will the magnetic cards still be readable after all this time?

These are not magnetic cards. The code is inside the module. The cards are just labels for the function keys. (Ti magnetic cards have beige/yellow colour.)

[Garth Wilson]

Right. The magnetic cards are the same size, but the black cards pictured are just to give each program in the module a set of labels for the top row of keys. I have an open-reel tape from the 1950's of Frank Sinatra singing though, and it still sounds fabulous. My 1980's digital microcassettes for the HP tape drive still all work flawlessly. I've read on this forum though that when people do have problems with them, it's not that they lose their data, but that the pressure pad deteriorates, or that the magnetic coating peels off the backing.

[striegel]

(06-05-2015 07:02 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  These are not magnetic cards. The code is inside the module. The cards are just labels for the function keys. (Ti magnetic cards have beige/yellow colour.)

Ah, I see. So that second sleeve with the Master Library cards is just labels and missing the actual programs.

I never owned one of that generation (TI 58/59), but I did have an SR-52, which could only store and recall programs from magnetic cards.