Wow! An affordable scientific marvel...
We all are aware of Smart Phones, I-Pods/I-Pads, digital cameras and Social NetworkingNot that I understand all these expensive modern advances.
One device I remember well when it first came out.... The hand calculator.
Crunching numbers almost instantly.
No more slide-rules and memorizing multiplication tables. Yikes.
They first became available in 1971. An unaffordable dream.
The stuff of science fiction. Texas Instruments (TI) was a major brand name in these new pocket calculators.
By 1978 they were slimmed down to the size of a credit card.
Eventually my children were allowed to use it in the classroom.
Today I saw one for only a buck.
Maybe I'll just wait a while before I buy a Droid.
(Remember the 1990's phone-in-a-bag? A cell phone the size of a brick. I even had cameras that used film! Thanks for stopping by.)
Labels: 30 days hath September, Droid, handheld, I-Pad, I-Pod, multiplication tables, pocket calculator, slide-rules, Texas Instruments, TI
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