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Re: The good old days (was Re: textbook prices)

If you bought the same one I did...HP 35..with the whole board replaced
when sin (20.02) was wrong!...it was a good deal, mine still works as
well as it did when I bought it...can't say that for the VW bug.

cheers

On Tue, 24
Feb 1998, John Mallinckrodt wrote:

And I bought a Volkswagen convertible in 1969 for $2399.

And I bought a calculator that could multiply and divide, take powers and
logs, do trig functions, and even had a place to store one number in 1972
for $399. A full $2000 less than that VW.

John
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