mirrorbird(12:50:55)
sometimes when i open the cupboard to get a postage stamp or something, i just turn it on and check the value of pi
mirrorbird(12:50:28)
my (PRE-graphing) school calculator from about 1996 -- still got it (with official exam sticker from UoR), it still works, with the same fucking batteries. amazing
zoi(12:50:18)
I had to bring a dumb calculator for my skippers' exams. no graphing calculators allowed.
mirrorbird(12:49:18)
we had some very basic graphing calculators, you could link em up with a cable, and swap programs, but the language was incredibly minimal. i did that "Kingdom" game where you buy food every year to stop the peasants from starving --
mirrorbird(12:48:11)
in the sense of "it shoudln't do it, but BY GOD i'm going to make it happen", that's what the scene is
zoi(12:48:10)
I wrote a blackjack game that made the circles in our school
zoi(12:48:00)
a lot of us in secondary school had some SHARP graphing calculators. no assembly, but some crippled BASIC