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In article <48...@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar (Peter da Silva) writes:
]You're out of step. The TI machines of the day were the 58C and the 59. I had
]a 59, and it was much faster than the HP 67 or HP 41 on every benchmark I
]tried. I know I did Euclid's algorithm and Newton's method. This was before
]the seive, or I'd have done that too.

Note that the 58 and 59 competed against the 41.  The 45 was much lower
end; it was not programmable (at least in any way I knew of), and it
came out much earlier.  The 55 and 57 really competed against machines
such as the 31 (and the other low 30-series, which were H-P's entry
level machines).  The 45 blew either of these machines out of the water
on things like 69! (the largest factorial you could take without
overflow).

]TI Australia had a newsletter for us "big spenders" (or maybe it was a user
]group thing), and they were talking about a machine with user programmable ROM
]modules, tentatively named the TI-60. It never came out. I don't know if it
]was killed when the calculator market crashed, or if it was just smoke to keep
]people from going out and buying HP 41Cs.

I wound up getting a 57 free (but broken).  I also got a 55-II by
similar means.  This machine was very different from the 55 -- LCD
display, slim line, small batteries, more stuff, etc.  BTW, I saw
something in a store recently called the TI-60.
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