XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-02 15:41, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 1/2/26 08:06, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   >> On 2 Jan 2026 06:32:41 GMT   
   >> rbowman  wrote:   
      
   ...   
      
   >> May I be the first to welcome you back to the start of last year, I hope   
   >> you can bring peace to Ukraine & the Middle East (other projects to be   
   >> announced after you've ticked those 2 off).   
   >   
   >    Hmmm ... this DOES seem to be a year-old theme ... maybe   
   >    something stuck in his outbox ?   
   >   
   >    I too bought a calculator way back then, but for $50 in   
   >    70s money. It STILL WORKS. The more expensive TI programmable   
   >    scientific I bought shortly after, the chikky keys crapped   
   >    out in less than a year.   
      
   My father bought a basic calculator during a trip to Britain in the   
   summer of 1976. I still have it somewhere, but I think it doesn't work.   
   It ate batteries and was larger than a package of cigarettes.   
      
   Maybe two years later, also in Britain, I bought a TI 57. Yes, the   
   keyboard was crap, the keys could repeat.   
      
   And maybe two years later my Canadian cousin handed me down his TI 58C.   
   Magnificent calculator, but same problem that actually made me fail an   
   exam or two on Uni.   
      
   >   
   >    I do remember the 'clock craze' ... as soon as the super   
   >    cheap nano-power clock chips came out EVERYTHING seemed   
   >    to have a digital clock built in.   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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