Your First Handheld?

[Jonathan Busby]

My first handheld calculator was a TI-85 which I got in 5th or 6th grade. I remember programming in TI-BASIC during lunch and creating graphics, fractals etc. When I was in in 6th grade, my parents bought me an HP48GX. It got stolen once in gym class, but the police found the culprit and got my calculator back ( which had a password protection program on it ). It then got stolen again and this time I never got it back. My parents then had to buy me a replacement, but, I accidentally left it in the car in the hot Texas sun and the beeper went wonky. So, I needed yet another replacement which I got in around 1995 We told the store that it was defective I know, not quite ethical, but my parents didn't want to pay for another calculator.

Jonathan