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The missing ones... |
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I looked for all my calculators all over the world: France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, USA, Canada...
And I found some very easily, others more difficult and, sometimes completely by chance, I unearthed rare and untraceable versions.
Some were very expensive and overpriced, and others were sold at such a low price that the shipping costs were higher.
I even had the chance to buy an untraceable and exceptional calculator for 5 €!
But there are still the ones that I missed or never saw.
Fortunately they are few and I hope that with a little luck...
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TI-53 "slanted"
It took me a while to find a "slanted" TI-53 made in Italy in 1985 with the Texas logo at the bottom left of the calculator.
But another "slanted" TI-53 made in Italy in 1986 with the Texas logo at the top right below the screen seems to exist.
I never saw one and even believed, at one time, that it had never existed.
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TI-56
3 versions of the TI-56 are differentiated by the position of the Texas logo and the text at the bottom right :
the first has the logo at the bottom left and "programmable constant memory" as text,
the second has the logo at the bottom left and "programmable" as text,
the third has the logo at the top right and "programmable" as text.
I found the second in the USA at an exorbitant price (to which should have been added the shipping costs and customs fees, often high) but the seller refused an international shipment.
As I did not find another...
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TI-55 II
Easily found, but unable to be purchased due to purchase restrictions made to foreigners from Brazil (need for a CPF), the Brazilian TI-55 II is much thicker than the usual TI-55 II.
Indeed the battery compartment located behind the screen accepts AA batteries (LR06) larger than the LR44.
A really special version !
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The Holy Grail
Although it exists in several versions, the rarest of the rare, the untraceable is the TI-88...
Legend has it that in 2011 or 2012 a TI-88 was sold at auction for over $ 3,000.
Is this a legend or a reality?
If this is a reality, what madness! Does it really live up to what the TI-88 deserves?
If it's a legend, this legend lives up to what the TI-88 deserves.
I have never seen one and will probably never see one.
Will anyone ever have the idea of reproducing one with its modules and printer ? Dream of an old fool...
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