• MagicShel@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      Jesus Christ. Look, back in the Stone Age when I went to school the coolest calculator was the TI-36 Solar. It was already that mundane.

      Naturally, I used a non-solar Casio, because I wasn’t one of the cool nerds.

      • bassad@jlai.lu
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        5 months ago

        damn you just reminded me my mom bought a basic calculator with tiny solar panel 25 years ago : it is still working !

    • LiquidSmoke@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Carter called for solar panels to be installed on the White House in 1979. Modern ones are probably way more efficient but they were definitely a thing.