Do you have a Casio calculator?

yes they do and my University's only 'authorised' calculator for exams is .... a Casio!

A basic one so the little darlings can't store all kinds of cribbing info on it.

Ian

I bought one in 1973 and I've still got it. Bought another one in 1978 and I still use that one, so someone else must have a lot of them at the back of their desk drawer. They were the calculator of choice when I was a lad.
Steve

In the early 1980's I worked as a computer asistent. A guy at work once told me about when he and a friend of him imported digital watches from Japan and sold the via ads in mens magazines in the middle of the 1970's.
After a while the company they bought the watches from sent them a letter and asked if they wanted to have the agency for the Swedish market.
They thought about it. Na, it was to much risk, they reasoned and answered back with a "No, thank you."
The company was Casio...

BTW I still have my C801 wristwatch/calculator!

JohanR

Just checked the back of the draw and yes.....fx-85N. About 25 years old with solar power and still functions perfectly.

But.....I still use my circular slide rule for speed/time/distance, fuel/weight/balance etc etc. So much faster, far more intuitive, and silly mistakes are bleeding obvious.

Cheers

Don

And best of all when you turn the number 5318008 upside down they still all say Boobies! That's 1 billion boobies.

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Originally posted by Don Atkinson:
But.....I still use my circular slide rule for speed/time/distance, fuel/weight/balance etc etc. So much faster, far more intuitive, and silly mistakes are bleeding obvious.

Cheers

Don

Digressing slightly, but who invented the wind/track/heading jobby on the back of the whiz wheel, Don?

My old instructor flies 767's for a day job and uses a Casio wrist watch calculator for that!

Duncan

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Digressing slightly, but who invented the wind/track/heading jobby on the back of the whiz wheel, Don?

I think it was a man called "Dalton"

Cheers

Don

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Originally posted by Don Atkinson:
Just checked the back of the draw and yes.....fx-85N. About 25 years old with solar power and still functions perfectly.


Cheers

Don

So that's 3 we have found then. I'll leave Don with his sliderule to figure out how many more we are looking for!

Steve

Ahhhh the schoolboy's friend, the Casio scientific calculator.

Did you know that some of the models used the same chip and if you knew which buttons to press, you could find 'hidden' features (like the old square root) that weren't on the key headers!

Try it and see.

Happy.

fx-992S-w here.

I used to able to drive it too, but have forgotten how now. I still have the box and instructions.

Solar, and still goes nicely. It was very good for electronics having Hexadecimal and Binary as well all the usual gubbins...

Fredrik

Still got my fx-82c from University days. Still on the original batteries after 2o something years! Unfortunately my memory hasn't faired so well over the years and have no idea how to use most of it's functionality.

Regards,

Willy.

It just so happens - manuals

fx-120. Green l.e.d. before Naim did it.

Yep, fx 32 Scientific from 1976, still functioning well for my 14 yo daughter when required.

The last Casio I had was a solar-powered whizz-bang (for it's time) scientific FX-990. The bloody thing started miscalculating (checked against classmates results back in the days of studying electronics at tech)... "sod that for a game of skittles" said I, went and spent more coin than I really had, and bought some *quality* hardware - an HP27S.

These days I find myself with 3 HP calculators, all of which function perfectly whenever I need a calculator (which is rarely). It's true you know - no-one ever regretted buying quality.

cheers

I am an accountant, I have about 5 Casio calcuators, 4 of which are viturally the same model(JS-140). The other one is a very cool one which can be pluged to an USB input of a computer so to allow it to become a keypad of the computer.

I don't need 5 of them but somehow i got a lots of them.

1 at work
1 given to my mum
3 at home


i used to have a FX-4100 when I was a student.

well.........when one think calculator, one think Casio....over here in Asia anyway..

Do they think more Texas Insturmente in the other side of hte world?

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
And best of all when you turn the number 5318008 upside down they still all say Boobies! That's 1 billion boobies.

and when you turn the number 0.1134 upside down it says hEllO

I had a slide-rule at school. Oh, and log tables.

"I had a slide-rule at school. Oh, and log tables."

and working it out in the margins <g>

I used to use a mechanical calculator. It looked like one of those things clippies had for giving out tickets on buses in't olden days!

Q. Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?

A. He worked it out with a pencil.


oh sorry, wrong thread.

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Q. Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?

A. He worked it out with a pencil.


oh sorry, wrong thread. Cool

Thank you reverend. How was the honeymoon?

I still have my Casio FX-451 (Solar powered calculator) from 1985 and it still works.

Steve.

At one of my jobs in the City I was given an HP 17B II. A very natty calculator with a load of functions I couldn't even begin to think of a use for.

Duncan

First calculator was a Rockwell something or other in about 1977ish.

My second one was a Casio but I can't remember the model or what happened to it. The current one is the fx-451M (solar) which is probably getting on for 20 years old now.

It still works but when i turn it on I more often than not have to set it back to "normal" DEG mode rather than "GRA" & "SCI" which it defaults to.

Cheers
Scott