My senior year of high school was they year the scientific TI-51 came out. Man,did I REALLY want one of those. It was the penultimate in "Geekiness". (They didn't have the word "geek" then. Of course, they were $200.00 
I got by in Advanced physics with my slide rule. I used to play a game with the whiz kids that HAD calculators. 9 times out of 10, I could get an answer more quickly than they could enter the numbers. Made me feel pretty good!!
I got by in Advanced physics with my slide rule. I used to play a game with the whiz kids that HAD calculators. 9 times out of 10, I could get an answer more quickly than they could enter the numbers. Made me feel pretty good!!