Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

The other day I was asked if I had a calculator. I had trouble coming up with an answer because I usually pull up the calculator on my computer… who uses a real calculator these days for small calculations? I searched through my stuff and lo and behold, I did have a calculator from high school:

I got the TI-85 because I was impressed one day by its predecessor, the TI-82′s infrared features. My friend had turned on the TV in the classroom one day with his introducing the potential for mischief and confusing and startling the high school teacher.

I thought I was so geekalicious in whipping out this fine specimen until I popped in some batteries and nothing on the screen appeared. I thought it needed a new backup battery or it was no longer working.

Then the guy who wanted the calculator said… “Remember, when you put in new batteries, you need to turn the contrast up by pressing the 2nd button and the up arrow?” and then he showed me.

Now that was super geekalicious.

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