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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:58:47 -0400
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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:26:33 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Then I got a no-name scientific calculator. Then a Sinclair calculator
>> kit.
>> Later a fancy TI with gold trim and lettering.  Then an HP-32.
>
> I never had a TI but I still have a HP-16C. 
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-16C
>
> That was fun to leave lying around in hex mode. If the RPN didn't get 
> somebody trying to figure out how much everyone should kick in for the 
> pizza order the hex math did.

Heh heh.

I left out that I had a TI-58/59 or somesuch, the only with little programming
cards. Used it a bit for a simple game (guessing numbers, can't remember the
name of the game, not enough fame).

-- 
The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
		-- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"