Desktop calculators

I haven't used a desktop calculator in years! As Excel is generally open I do any calculations on a blank bit of spreadsheet and delete it when I'm done. Otherwise I use Windows Calculator.

I use a TI BA-II+. Haven't used anything else in a long while.

I have a Sharp Elsi Mate EL-337E with a sticky "1" key!

If I don't have Excel open, I now use a calculator on my iPhone. 

I had a former (female) partner who had bought a huge sharp calculator from the local pound shop (yes it cost a pound).

It was cheap because the shop bought in rejects and ends of line and instead of the five being in the middle it had another seven.

It wasnt even that that i found fascinating, it was the fact that she had snopaked (a form of white paint that was used to correct errors in the days of pen and ink - ask your senior partner) and written five over the seven!

Dodgy calculator £1

Women's logic - priceless!

I am always amazed by the fact that iPhone owners always say "my iPhone" when everyone else says "my phone". I would have thought every phone has a calculator on it these days. It took the iPhone a while to catch up with other phones, so you can generally assume that if the iPhone can do it, most other phones can too.

Not sure why you'd be surprised chatman - it's just another example of how well Apple's marketing has worked! Certainly has on me :-)

Moving well off topic:

Apple has created a set of followers who just love their products.  Their followers cannot fully explain why they love their devices.  I liken it to Alfisti (lovers of Alfa Romeo cars) - that's another set of followers who cannot fully explain why they love their cars. (Great strategy if you can achieve it - though Apple do a better job of exploiting it than Alfa.)

Kerry

Good point. I suppose what I should really say is that I am amazed how good their marketing is. It really is second to none.

Having said that, I still do not understand why iPhone users feel they have to state the make of their smart phone where others don't, unless they do not realise that it is only a smart phone,

I agree with above poster that Excel is the master calculator.

I also have a Casio scientific calculator, maybe habit but sometimes you want to add up some numbers and it seems the quickest way.

I think it is a case of one-upmanship. Based on the people I know who say iPhone instead of simply phone they see their phone as a status symbol or a gauge of how successful they are. It's a case of look at me, I have an iPhone.

Sometime it does make sense if it is an abbreviation. If we all called them telephones then I can see that iPhone would be used. I certainly say iPod instead of my MP3 player.