Floppy Days Podcast 3 - The TI59 Programmable Calculator

Personal memories, history, technical specs, peripherals, magazines/books/software, fun with the machine, modern upgrades & repairs, emulation, current Web sites, letters from listeners.

Links mentioned in the show:

• TI-59 email list - [email protected]

• TI58/59 manuals at rskey.org - http://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/the-library/12

• TI59 compiler by Guillaume Tello - http://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/ti58_e.htm

• TI59 emulator by GemTree Software - http://www.ti59.com/ti59.exe

• TI58c/59 site by Pierre Houbert, including TI58c emulator - http://83.156.189.247/ti58c/index.php?langue=EN

• Vertigo java-based emulator - http://www.n3times.com/vertigo/#

• TI59 emulator by Alain Zanchetta - http://www.zanchetta.net/

• Programming The TI-59 and HP-41 Calculators by Paul Garrison - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ti-59-Hp-41-Calculators-Garrison/dp/0830624422

• Sourcebook for Programmable Calculators by Texas Instruments - http://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Programmable-Calculators-Texas-Instruments/dp/0895120259

• Personal Programming – A Complete Owner's Manual for TI Programmable 58/59 - http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Programming-Complete-Owners-Programmable/dp/0895120275

• Programming Programmable Calculators by Harold S. Engelsohn - http://www.amazon.com/Programming-programmable-calculators-Harold-Engelsohn/dp/0810451050

• TI59.com – http://ti59.com

• TI59 presentation at Vintage Computer Festival Europe 2007 by Bernd Ulmann - http://fafner.dyndns.org/~vaxman/publications/ti-59.pdf

• TI59 site by Bernd Ulmann - http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/texas_instruments/ti-59/ti-59.html

• Battery repair at Datamath Calculator Museum - http://www.datamath.org/Batteries/BP1_Repair.htm

• Disassembly and cleaning instructions - http://www.marekczeszek.com/sitemap/homepage/ti-59-how-to/ti-59-how-to.htm

• TI59 Failures and Maintenance Tips - http://www.rskey.org/gene/calcgene/59diag.htm

• PPX-59 Software & Newsletter archive - http://www.datamath.org/Sci/WEDGE/PPX59-Newsletter.htm

• PPC Notes Newsletter - http://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/the-library/14

• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59