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Re: Calculator question
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 19, 23:36 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 19, 23:36 -0500
> c) dual power (solar and battery). > > The last requirement excludes bulky, heavy > and expensive things with graphical displays hudge memory, etc., > of the type Celestaire sells.' " > > Try searching ebay for "programmable calculators". I did. > The most recent TI-89 has something like 3 megabytes of memory. Yes, this is one of those Celestaire things mentioned above. Weight 3 pounds. And I afraid that it consumes power like my stupid laptop, which converts all this power to heat so that it is painful to keep it on my laps:-) And accordingly, the super-powerful battery hardly lasts more than 1 hour. Alex.
