TI-58C and TI-59

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(03-29-2019 06:37 PM)grsbanks Wrote:  But one thing you can do with the TI-66 is go and have a drink while it's crunching numbers. I do have very fond memories of the TI-66, it got me through my "Baccalauréat" some 30+ years ago, but it runs about as fast as molasses in the middle of the night in mid-winter

By today's standards these calculators are definitely slow (The Ti-58/59 even more than your Ti-66). But back then it didn't feel slow at all. The Ti-59 was my first programmable calculator and the alternative would have been to repeatedly type in everything into a non-programmable one. That would really have been slow!

The first time I actually felt a calculator to be slow (and I really don't care about speed in pocket calculators much) was when I added an HP-48SX to my collection. Trying out some of the examples from the manual, especially some computer algebra and graphing, really stressed my patience to the limit.

Cheers
Max