Calculator Wars at your School

[johanw]

In highschool we mostly used some cheap Veneka scientific calculator, the school advised that model because it was cheap. I still have it and it still works.

For myself I bought a Casio FX-98 then, a credit card sized calculator on solar power. Also still works.

When I started university I got one of the first a graphing calculators, a Casio FX-8000G. Same model as the cheaper 7000G but with an added printer port that I didn't need but the 7000 was sold out. That was long before internet shops existed.

I did have a friendly discussion about which was better with someone who had a HP28s. At that time I didn't understand how it worked but I was very impressed with its matrix and even symbolic capabilities. However, I could not afford one then after buying the 8000.