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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23724729

My dad says he's never replaced the battery in it. We saw this in a home video and laughed when we found the still uses it 40 years later.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is an awesome bit of kit! Amazing that it has non-volatile memory for the five accounts even though it's that old.

[–] BallShapedMan 1 points 1 month ago

I didn't even realize that, I wonder what is listed in those amounts. Time to go get the calculator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty sure I used that same one to keep my accounts balanced in the mid/late 80's.

It had a "permanent" memory of your account balance.