Mum gave me this in me first year of school and I still use it to this day. I’m 37.

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    1. Wow! That’s incredible. Calculators made these days wouldn’t last 25 years nevermind the fact of someone hanging on to it for that long.

    2. 1 16 69 x 3 =35007

      I think it was like there is 1 girl, she’s 16, and 69’s 3 times a week, what is she…. Loose. Makes no sense but hey it was elem/junior high.

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      Dolly Parton wore an X size bra, which was 222 big so the doctor gave her Y pills to take 8 times a day, which left her…

      Did that from memory. Can’t remember X or Y, tho…

    4. In highschool a buddy of mine was cackling laughing when he showed us how he spelt BOOBLESS on his calculator. Turned out he forgot the 7 so we called him Boobess for the rest of his life.

    5. I got a Hewlett Packard 48G around 1993 or 1994 when I was in high school that I still have. Still works and it feels like it could do another 30+ years easily. 🙂

    6. I was in the last class in my school to learn to use the slide rule before calculators became affordable.

    7. I had to have three different calculators throughout the last three years because new grades kept having new requirements

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