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Title: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: apcalc on August 06, 2010, 09:16:36 am: I was wondering -- Where did everyone get their calcs from? Was it from a major chain store (Walmart, Target, Staples), online (School Mart, TI's Website), eBay, a gift, did you win it?

Here are mine:

TI-89 Titanium - Walmart
TI-Nspire - eBay
TI-Nspire CX CAS - Underwood Distributing
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: fb39ca4 on August 06, 2010, 09:51:50 am: Here's mine:
TI-82(broken link port)-garage sale
Nspire-Staples
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: qazz42 on August 06, 2010, 09:52:45 am: nspire- Staples

TI-84+SE- Staples
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Snake X on August 06, 2010, 10:05:04 am: ti-83+ - my sister
ti nspire cas with touchpad - copcoinc.com
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Raylin on August 06, 2010, 10:05:18 am: TI-84+ SE:

Spoiler For History:
Bought (Wal-Mart)
Stolen
Bought (Target)
Stolen
Borrowed indefinitely from a classmate who knocked his girlfriend up and dropped out of school
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: thepenguin77 on August 06, 2010, 10:07:17 am: 84+ SE: Walmart

Bought a BE first, but returned it. The lady looked at me funny when I did.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: qazz42 on August 06, 2010, 10:10:32 am: Quote from: Raylin on August 06, 2010, 10:05:18 am
TI-84+ SE:

Spoiler For History:
Bought (Wal-Mart)
Stolen
Bought (Target)
Stolen
Borrowed indefinitely from a classmate who knocked his girlfriend up and dropped out of school

Aww, poor Raylin, undesirables stealing from you, I think someone needs a hug for their lost calcs :)
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Raylin on August 06, 2010, 10:13:37 am: Eh.
You deal with it.

It's the super-awesome projects that you lose that makes the theft hurt.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: qazz42 on August 06, 2010, 10:15:37 am: Although, these days, most calc programmers keep their calcs with them, never letting people touching it or letting it out of their site :)

EDIT: 200 posts!
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: TIfanx1999 on August 06, 2010, 11:21:09 am: Lets see, in order:
TI-83 (parents bought, vanished)
TI-86(Wal-mart)
TI-89(Wal-mart or Bestbuy)
Ti-83+(2) (bought second hand from a friend of a friend $10 each)
Ti-83+ SE(Ebay, I think for ~$50)
HP 50G(Circuit city)
*edited for readability*
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: nemo on August 06, 2010, 11:34:26 am: my mom's friend who's a teacher -> my mom -> me.

i have a teacher edition calculator, which made my freshman math teacher convinced i stole it from him... on the first day of school. i had to get my mom to tell him how i got it. he was an ass anyway.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: chrisf1337 on August 06, 2010, 11:37:20 am: TI-89T: Fry's
TI-84SE: Amazon
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: calc84maniac on August 06, 2010, 11:55:26 am: TI-84+ SE: Birthday present (unknown origin). Broken.
TI-84+ SE: Texas Instruments (warranty replacement)
TI-84+ SE: MathCounts Nationals 2006 (Free! Teacher's edition, too, with MathCounts logo on the slide cover)
TI-84+ SE: MathCounts Nationals 2007 (Free!)
TI-89 Ti: OfficeMax
TI-Nspire Clickpad Non-CAS: Who Wants to Be A Mathematician (http://www.ams.org/programs/students/wwtbam/charleston) (Free!)
TI-Nspire Clickpad Non-CAS: ARML 2009 (Free!)
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: FinaleTI on August 06, 2010, 12:24:23 pm: TI-83+ - Gift
TI-84+ SE - Gift. Replaced under warranty.
TI-89 Titanium - Bought Online.
TI-81 + TI-82 - Got from grandmother.
TI-83+ SE - Bought on Ebay. Possible hardware glitch.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: _player1537 on August 06, 2010, 01:06:03 pm: lol, some of you all lose your calcs a lot :P (no offence)

Ti-84+se - bought from my cousin, he lost it, bought an new one, and found his old one (I got it for 40 :D)
Ti-83+ - My mom bought one for college, and I got it when she was done with it (it has wierd blank vertical lines)
Ti-Nspire - Ebay <3
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: ztrumpet on August 06, 2010, 01:41:16 pm: I think Calc84 has the best calc origins. ;D

Mine:
83+ - Parents bought for me at Staples. My sister is uses it now.
84+ SE - Bought by my at Best Buy.
86 - Christmas present from my uncle. I think it came from eBay, but I'm not sure.
83+ SE - Bought by me from eBay. ;D
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Silver Shadow on August 06, 2010, 03:04:56 pm: 83+ - From Carrefour (a French supermarket); I later gave it to my sister when I got my Nspire.

Nspire Clickpad - From Carrefour too.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: yunhua98 on August 06, 2010, 03:35:43 pm: 84+ SE: Wal-mart
84+ BE: Fixed someone else's, but he already got a new one, so gave it to me.

EDIT: yunhua98= >:D/3
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Silver Shadow on August 06, 2010, 03:40:44 pm: Nooooooooo!!!!
We are being surrounded by evilness! Run for your lives!!!
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 06, 2010, 05:20:04 pm: 83+: Radio Shack (big mistake, but Staples had no more calcs at the time and I did not want to walk 20 minutes to reach the Wal Mart). Radio Shack charged $159.99 for a 83+ while Staples charged $139.99 and Wal Mart $149.99 x.x

83+ (My other one): Got it from my bro in exchange of my Nintendo DS. He got his calc at Staples.

83+SE: Staples. It broke due to an OS glitch and I got another in exchange 2 weeks afterward

89T: Staples

I got my 16 other calculators on Ebay.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: willrandship on August 06, 2010, 07:13:21 pm: TI-84+ Radio Shack (back when they sold the good stuff :D)
Stolen in middle school :(
TI-82 borrowed from bro (mentioned in my prof) also from Radio shack
Got a big bar horizontally through the screen (bad ribbon cable)
TI-86 EBay
Bad Ribbon cable on it too, caused a weird short of vert and horizontal sync I could flex the calc and it would fix for a while, until it stopped fixing.
TI-Nspire ebay, brand new, opened with a scratch on the cover's lip for the cradle, $100! It even had all the manuals and warranty info!

Love the new sig, DJ, but I can't find it on ticalc.org.....
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 06, 2010, 07:19:13 pm: I would be scared to lend you one of my calc D:
/me takes his calcs out of reach from willrandship then runs away.

On a more serious but off-topic note, the sig thing was in ticalc comments at http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/11/115/115018.html on the very last comment page (depending of how you setup your ticalc account). It's split in 6 comments because it wouldn't fit in one. It's written in all caps so it shouldn't be too hard to notice there.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: calcdude84se on August 11, 2010, 09:52:19 am: A lot of you seem to have multiple calcs O_O.
I only have one TI-84+SE, purchased for school from Walmart. (For under $100, IIRC, after several coupons (not me, I wasn't the purchaser :P))
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: patriotsfan on August 11, 2010, 05:29:52 pm: Quote from: calcdude84se on August 11, 2010, 09:52:19 am
A lot of you seem to have multiple calcs O_O.
I only have one TI-84+SE, purchased for school from Walmart. (For under $100, IIRC, after several coupons (not me, I wasn't the purchaser :P))
Me too. I have one TI-83+ from Staples that my mom bought for school. If I only knew I could play games with graphing calculators from the start, then I would have probably asked my mom to buy for me a TI-84+SE instead. :P
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: tloz128 on August 11, 2010, 05:45:38 pm: I got my 84+ SE at Target for around $130 (I paid too much :P)
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: willrandship on August 11, 2010, 05:48:24 pm: Well, I only have one working calc of my own at a time :P
/me chases DJ, trying to explain that he doesn't do bad things to calculators.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: TsukasaZX on August 11, 2010, 07:14:56 pm: TI-84+reg: Dad bought it for me because I needed it for school
TI-89Ti: Dad bought it for me for Christmas because I kept talking about the 89 series... little did I know I was being naive about how complex the bugger actually is so it mostly just gathers dust... `-`
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: bwang on August 11, 2010, 07:58:26 pm: Regular Nspire: won it at ARML (http://www.arml.com)
Touchpad Nspire CAS: the same
I also used to have an 84+SE, purchased, but its gone now :(
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Munchor on December 09, 2010, 03:10:19 pm: Casio fx-82MS: Bought it
Casio fx-82MS: Bought it
TI NSpire Touchpad: Bought it
TI NSpire 84+ Keypad: Free ordered it
HP XXXXXXXXXXX: Got it free from buying HP Printer
Casio XXXXXXXXXXXX: Inherited from my father
Casio XXXXXXXXXXXX(the same): Inherited from my father
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: JosJuice on December 09, 2010, 03:14:12 pm: TI-84+SE: My mom bought it for me at a Swedish site named Tradera. I believe it's similar to Ebay.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: holmes221b on December 09, 2010, 03:56:41 pm: TI-83+: Parents got it used online.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Juju on December 09, 2010, 04:43:51 pm: TI-83+: Wal-Mart.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 09, 2010, 06:57:53 pm: Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 09, 2010, 03:10:19 pm
HP XXXXXXXXXXX: Got it free from buying HP Printer

O.O

I wish that was possible here when they still sold HP calcs...

Or was it a scientific calc? If it was a graphing calc, this is awesome.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: AngelFish on December 09, 2010, 07:04:07 pm: Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 09, 2010, 03:10:19 pm
HP XXXXXXXXXXX: Got it free from buying HP Printer

*Eyes HP printer on desk connected to his calc*
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: SirCmpwn on December 09, 2010, 07:12:18 pm: TI-83+: Target (I think). Since given to my little sister
TI-84+: Target (also, maybe)
TI-Nspire: Amazon
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Deep Toaster on December 09, 2010, 08:09:59 pm: I got mine from a lost and found... I probably shouldn't have, but the owner had gone off to a different school, and no one claimed it...

And a friend of mine got an 84+ from the same lost and found. People keep leaving their calcs behind here :P

Nearly lost it once, but someone recognized the weird stuff I put on my case and returned it to me :D
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Yeong on December 09, 2010, 08:11:00 pm: ti-84+se = friend

n-Spire=pawn shop O.O
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: fb39ca4 on December 09, 2010, 09:47:54 pm: Nspire: Staples

Who would pawn their nspire ???
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Yeong on December 09, 2010, 09:48:50 pm: it was new(somehow)
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: willrandship on December 10, 2010, 12:07:55 am: my original 84+: Radio Shack (gone now :()
my favorite calc so far, my 86: Amazon (Only $30! screen died)
my current nspire: Ebay, $100 (with 84+ pad, before touchpad came out)
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: calc84maniac on December 10, 2010, 01:50:53 am: Quote from: Deep Thought on December 09, 2010, 08:09:59 pm
I got mine from a lost and found... I probably shouldn't have, but the owner had gone off to a different school, and no one claimed it...

And a friend of mine got an 84+ from the same lost and found. People keep leaving their calcs behind here :P

Nearly lost it once, but someone recognized the weird stuff I put on my case and returned it to me :D
I left my first TI-84+SE on a plane in Scotland about 6 years ago. Slipped out of my pocket into the seat. Thankfully we were able to retrieve it.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Hayleia on July 30, 2011, 02:54:58 am: Best Necropost Ever :w00t:

I got my TI-83+ in a teacher magazine (my mother bought it, it was new and cheap :D).
I got my TI-84+SE in Amazon (it was new but not cheap :()
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on July 30, 2011, 09:14:42 am: Ti-89: Bought from brother(Jim) who bought it secondhand.
Ti-89, Ti-83, TI-83+: Bought them all secondhand.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: yunhua98 on July 30, 2011, 09:22:50 am: 84+SE: bought for school
84+BE: someone gave it to me after I fixed it, since he already got a new one.
83+ (LCD busted): I don't even know
Nspire CX: Mathcounts Nats. \o/
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: mrmprog on July 30, 2011, 10:23:28 am: You went to mathcounts nat :o ? Wow!
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: Loulou 54 on July 30, 2011, 10:50:57 am: 3 * TI 89 => from my three brothers.
TI 76.fr => Won thanks to the "MEGA CONCOURS TI BANK 2010" (2nd position, the first was critor.. x) )
TI Nspire CX CAS => Won thanks to the TI Concours Basic z80.
:)
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: ben_g on July 30, 2011, 02:27:06 pm: I got my 84+ from school
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: LincolnB on July 30, 2011, 04:37:24 pm: I bought my 83+ after winning a lot of money at a piano competition, then lost it, then bought my current calc, 84+, after winning the piano competition the next year as well.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: AngelFish on July 30, 2011, 05:30:33 pm: Casio Prizm: Best Buy (the only place that I could find one)

TI-84+ SE: Staples :P
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: pianoman on July 30, 2011, 08:42:32 pm: TI Nspire- amazon.com
84+- school
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: yunhua98 on July 31, 2011, 01:24:30 pm: Mrmprog: its not that impressive as I live in TN. :P
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: zeldaking on July 31, 2011, 02:06:50 pm: Ti-84se from staples, and casio prizm on ebay.
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: annoyingcalc on July 31, 2011, 06:23:05 pm: 82 83pbe * 2 84pse from teacher 92 ebay 89 aunt
Title: Re: Where did you get your calcs from?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 31, 2011, 06:37:37 pm: Heya Zeldaking, welcome to the forums. :) I hope you enjoy your stay! Do you do any programming by the way?