No, no, no... That pic wasn't mine, it's long gone. I just found a pic of it on the net to show what I had.
This "chip" shortage is frustrating
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Did it look like this? I have two sets of the sixpac's, one is still unopened in the original packaging. Juice up your 8088 or 286 with these add on's.
OK, if someone pulls out a abacus I’m going to just die laughing!! 
user8963
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Who needs an abacus when you can have this oneOK, if someone pulls out a abacus I’m going to just die laughing!!
user8963
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That’s awesome thanks for sharing.
Sadly HP released the hp 35 only 7 years later, which has all scientific functions in small case. this was the end of friden.
there are other cool calculators... just look up "tube calculator"
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OK, if someone pulls out a abacus I’m going to just die laughing!!
I see your abacus and raise you Digi-Comp! Yes, I had one...
My first computer was an Eagle 64k CPM that cost $5,000.
My first computer was an Eagle 64k CPM .
Here is my Kaypro
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I have one, I'll find it and post a picture tomorrow!OK, if someone pulls out a abacus I’m going to just die laughing!!
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I wasn’t aware of this device before you posted it. Thanks for sharing it was a nice read.
When I sit back to where man started to where we are now. Just think the cheapest smart phone can do and offer all of us incredible tools and methods to communicate!
Imagine if we could send back a smart phone to the ancient pyramid days?!?
The temples would never get built as they all would be playing donkey Kong / making tik tok videos!
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^^^^ Yeah, but that phone wouldn't work very well without cell towers every five miles or so.
I still have my original calculator, ten fingers and ten toes!
I still have my original calculator, ten fingers and ten toes!
On a more serious note this whole chip shortage is getting out of hand. I can’t say whether it’s due to factories seeing personnel being sick vs what others have said is plain hoarding.
It’s probably a combination of both along with some industries just slow rolling (blue flu) to let the demand rise to increase their profits.
We all saw this with timber where common 2 X 4 were easily 2-4 times more expensive because factories just cut down production!!
Now there’s a glut of wood products in the system and prices have either gone back to pre bull shit prices or have dropped lower.
Been reading about how lots of people are waiting months for appliances that span fridges, stoves, dishwasher etc. It’s funny because (not really) the vast majority of these appliances don’t have very many IC ‘s when you compare to say a A/V system??
Yet TV, Stereo, what ever are flying off the shelf and these makers have no problem getting these chips or IC etc? I could understand if it was some very specific IC but people are saying this problem covers old to new IC tech ??
I’m having a really hard time believing that’s the case vs people are just gaming the system to push up prices for the same.
Here you go, one abacus! Now, it was from when I was a kid, decades ago, but, hey!OK, if someone pulls out a abacus I’m going to just die laughing!!
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Commodore 64 for me. I think I was in middle school at the time. We started out with the tape drive, but eventually got the disk drive and then some sort of cartridge ROM thing. Oh, and the dot matrix printer too. It was like watching an automated typewriter.
I learned to program code (very basic code) on that thing.
I learned to program code (very basic code) on that thing.
Here you go, one abacus! Now, it was from when I was a kid, decades ago, but, hey!
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Great way to start a Monday showing people what others still have from back in the day!