Just put some fresh batteries in my ol' TI-92 calculator. I always had the functionally equivalent TI-89 in school but wanted the TI-92 just for its qwerty keyboard and much cooler form factor... well as an adult I bought two and I must admit its still a great calculator!

@freemo mfw calculators have deliberately garbage keyboards to make school boards happy.

@icedquinn Yea I'm aware, really stupid rule you cant use QWERTY on the tests.. but I never understood why that meant I had to suffer the rest of the time in school. Keep in mind I was in school in the 80s and 90s so programming these calculators in QBasic to do all sorts of crazy shit was the norm. So programming them to cheat on tests wouldnt be too far fetched. Just not sure how not allowing a qwerty keyboard is gonna stop that

@freemo because these things are basically made in a mutual corruption scheme where texas instruments gets a monopoly on approvals so you have to buy overpriced calculators.

i checked a time or two and there was like, exactly one casio and hp model that was approved.

(i have one of the G-50s before they stopped production )

@icedquinn numworks, a small time company, seemed to have no issue getting approved.

There are 32 approved models of Casio and 9 approved HP models.