Octal

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Octal
>   From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>   Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:22:14 -0700 (PDT)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>> Here's a question for the list - how many still have and use the TI
>> calculator that could be used in octal or hex?
>
>TI Programmer  first model had an LED display, and went through batteries
>rather quickly.  There is an enormous range of what life people would get
>from the batteries in it, ranging from hours to weeks.

the led model also had a rotten keyboard.   The batteres in mine 
gave good service but the keyboard was useless after a year.

FYI: I have a clock radio (GE) that used a TI chip in the PLL and 
their rotten keyboard (same failure mode).

>TI Programmer  Second model had an LCD display, and the batteries
>outlasted the keyboard (NOT a clean room situation)
>
>Casio CFX40 and CFX400 wrist watch scientific calculator that had
>decimal, hex, and octal modes.  They are starting to become hard to find.

Cute but it was hard to use.

Allison