(10-13-2024, 06:05 PM)copycat Wrote:

(10-13-2024, 05:55 PM)carp8dm Wrote: Texas Instruments...  It good damn product.  A good damn company.

Absolutely.  My uncle was instrumental in the development of the TI-55.  So much so that NASA hired him.  My mom used to complain that she was paying for her son to learn what her brother helped develop.

It's crazy how much of the history of computer development isn't learned by lay people.

My dad, rest is soul, talked to me for hours about how he developed the first computers using punch cards during my freshman calculus class.  After I bought that TI-83 I was complaining about how hard it was to understand it's functions.  He was a PhD in economics, and back in the 60s and even early 70s he was programming code with freaking punch cards in Bowling Greene and New Mexico.  His advice was basically to quit my [BLEEP] about the calculator and just learn how to use it, which I eventually did.  Once I figured out how to use it, the thing was truly amazing.  The way you could zoom in and zoom out of different formulas was mesmerizing to me at the time.  

LOL, I miss him every day.  He was a hard [BLEEP], but he always had such a great of way of explaining things to inspire me.  I just hope my son can get that same thing from me.  Sometimes I don't think I'm as good as he was.

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