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points by burnedbyhell 4 days ago | 0 comments

I started on a Ti-83 and better yet could take other programs online and load them and then modify to my desire.

When the teacher said show your work I wrote out the program I made to calculate the equation. They banned calculators altogether.

Once there was a computer I traded sleep to stay on it. I worked professionally for almost 3 decades and it ultimately cost me my health and mental health. It was often my own insecurities and anxiety that led me up the ladder.

I left the field and went to work for something I believe in and my tech skills are like wizardry to these folks.

There is a lot of blue sky to explore for people in tech.

[–] wpm 4 days ago

I lost the TI-83 I used in high school after a physics final during my first year at university, and with it, all of the programs I had written on there. There are two data loss incidents that make me wince, and that is one of them. Not because they were great. They sucked. All in TI-BASIC, I was too stoned to wonder "how do the games I installed get away with not being all in TI-BASIC it would be too much to write" and get pointed towards learning assembly at a much younger age than I did, but still, they were Genesis, Book I for me.

[–] anon7725 4 days ago

What field did you go into?

[–] burnedbyhell 4 days ago

Got into tech from help desk (to be fair it was partially supporting UUNET and Usenet so it wasn't a clueless end user all the time), all the way to top level engineer doing devops type work.

Left to work in the arts.

[–] zabriel_goss 4 days ago

Say more! Fine arts? Music? Theater? Non-profit? Commercial?

[–] josh-sematic 4 days ago

TI-83 was also my gateway drug into programming. Good memories!

[–] jamesfinlayson 4 days ago

TI-84+ for me, though I think it was fairly similar to the TI-83.