caloccia@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (William Caloccia) (01/31/91)
>* Texas Instruments TI-30 (black w/ red LED displays) >* Sharp Micro BankCharge (super-thin & tiny 1.75'x2.25') >* Texas Instruments BA-35 (Student Business Analyst) Antique ? You're joking right ? I don't think either of those companies have existed long enough to make an antique (technically obsolete calculators perhaps, but not antiques). Heck, my Land Rover is only a '69, and that doesn't even rate as an 'antique'. Now this 1947 Pickett & Eckel Deci-log-log slide rule with 30 scales printed one it (double sided) -- that's an antique. And I know this fellow who has a number of antique electric calculators, some of them even have ALL four functions. :-) [ok, that's not appropriate here, none of them would be considered 'hand held'...] But then there is the Curta..... Anyone know where I could find one ?
bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) (01/31/91)
In a posting of [31 Jan 91 06:11:55 GMT] caloccia@stratus.com (William Caloccia) writes: > I don't think either of those companies have existed long enough to > make an antique (technically obsolete calculators perhaps, but not > antiques). Not that it really matters, but this is what Webster's has to say about it... 1. an.tique \an-'te-k\ aj [MF, fr. L antiquus, fr. ante before - more at ANTE-] 1a: belonging to antiquity 1b: among the oldest of its class 2: belonging to earlier periods : ANCIENT 3: in a former style or fashion : OLD-FASHIONED 4: imitating or suggesting the crafts or style of an earlier period - an.tique.ly av 2. antique n 1: a relic or object of ancient times or of an earlier period 2: a work of art, piece of furniture, or decorative object made at an earli er period and according to U.S. customs laws at least 100 years ago So I guess since a TI-30 is generally considered old-fashioned, out-dated - who would consider it for _practical_ use - it's per definition antique? At least per Webster's definition? -- Jan Brittenson bson@ai.mit.edu ;; "Make sure the brain is connected before the mouth is started."