A few months ago, my trusty old TI-30 slr+ finally gave up the ghost. Oh, I saw it coming: Towards the end of its life, it needed more and more light to work properly, to the point that I was holding the solar cell right up against a 60 W bulb. When even that stopped doing the trick, I decided it was done.
Well, I now have a new TI-36X Solar that I got for my birthday, but after serving me faithfully every day for literally half my life, it seems like I ought to do something with the old one: It doesn’t seem right to just throw an old friend like that in the trash.
So what should I do with it? Please note that I’m looking for something respectful here, so check your ideas concerning sledgehammers and acetelyne torches at the door.
I would second the shadow box idea if i knew what the frikken heck that was!!!
I would also display a memorable exam that was graded that your old friend helped you make.
Then I would use your brand new TI-36x to calculate how much therapy you will need to get over feeling this sentimental about a little box of silicon chips and LEDs.
its a calculator… it doesnt have feelings. let it go!
OH! is that wat it is. OK I officially second the shadow box thing. I would like to point out that on of those showcase frames is about 30 bucks. Isnt that twice what an old TI-30 cost?
Why don’t we have more thinking this original around here?
Myself, I’d take it to some high school’s shop class, and ask them to encase it in a solid block of polymer. Then I’d use it as a paperweight.
Hmm, a shadowbox sounds like a possibility… As would the polymer block, except I’m not sure how doable that is. But I don’t have any old tests to display with it. Or rather, I probably do, but they’re down around the mid-Cretaceous stratum of my desk, or so.
And Trigonal? What the heck would you do with it? I can’t imagine why someone would be so eager to get a non-functioning calculator.
Hmm, a shadowbox sounds like a possibility… As would the polymer block, except I’m not sure how doable that is. But I don’t have any old tests to display with it. Or rather, I probably do, but they’re down around the mid-Cretaceous stratum of my desk, or so.
And Trigonal? What the heck would you do with it? I can’t imagine why someone would be so eager to get a non-functioning calculator.
A couple more ideas…
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[li]Replace circuit board with metal plate to add weight and use as paperweight[/li][li]Replace display with the innards of a cheap wristwatch, rig up a stand and use it as desk clock[/li][/ul]
You know what I’ve still got a (working)Sinclair (prducers of the mighty ZX Spectrum)programmable calculator, which is the first calculator to ever be programmable .
As George found out the hard way in “Of Mice and Men,” a man has to shoot his own dog. You do too. For a calculator, a .22 should more than suffice. A single round through the processor, and RIP. It’s the only right thing to do and you know it.
I’m serious. I think you should eat it. Consume a little piece of it each day. Maybe round off any point bits if you are worried, but I can’t forsee you internally stabbing yourself with a tiny bit of calculator. You can stretch it out over the course of a year or two. And even if you don’t eat the whole thing, the little rubbery buttons will go down very easily, as will non-pointy bits like wires and such.
What should I do with my old calculator?
What should I do with my old calculator?
What should I do with my old calculator?
Ear-ly in the morning.
Toss it in the trash cos it’s obsolete now.
Toss it in the trash cos it’s obsolete now.
Toss it in the trash cos it’s obsolete now.
Ear-ly in the morning.
Look, I know that I’m being sentimental about this, and I appreciate that it may seem silly. But really, how many of you have ever used something every day for fourteen years? Ya get kind of attached to it.
