As lovely as all this is, I find sorrow in my heart for all of you perpetuating Wal-Fart's evilness.

Hear hear!

I think I got my calc before my citty got wall Mart.

Agreed! Never seen it referred to as "Wal-Fart" before, though...

TI83+ My mother bought it from Circuit City a year before I needed one because it only costed $70. (Before the silver edition)

TI83 My friend sold a operational but worn-out 83 for $10. He bought it on eBay for $15

TI89T A group of my dearest friends chipped in for a TI89 Titanium and threw me a surpise birthday party! One of my favourite possessions, second only to my laptop.

I got my Voyage 200 for a Calculus class... boy was THAT fun. I actually bought it directly from my wholesale distributer; I ended up paying about what you see it for on some of the discount sites.

Overall, while I like the fact that it does integrals and derivitives, I miss the math library that came pre-installed on my HP 48: It had formulas for all kinds of stuff: physics, economics, and more. I suppose I could find most of that if I looked hard enough, but the calc did what it was supposed to do: helped me through my calc class.

TI-82: Bought it for $5 during computer literacy
TI-89: Bought it for $20 from a friend
TI-89T: Bought it at walmart for about $150

LOL! Its starting to appear that all of us calculator nerds know how to get good deals on calculators! All these bargains, and trades.

Um, not always. When I was looking for an 83+ on eBay, I saw one where the starting price was ~$8, with a couple hours to go, and I was going to bid on it, but I misread the time and missed the end of the auction (it turned out that no one else had bid on it either). :'-( I then ended up getting a different 83+ for $50, and every time I think about it, I want to kick myself for missing that great deal.

i bought my 83+ for $70 at Fry's. I got the tip of my link stuck in it so i bought my 89ti for $130 at Target. i broke it and bought another one. i put the old calculator in the case of the new one and used the new receipt to return it. a good way to get a lifetime warranty for free.

one word not including these: genious

Got it (83+) from my brother, who got it from my sister, who bought it somewhere... How would I know where? So that makes it (counts on fingers) 5 years old! Gee, I want an 84

TI-86: From OfficeMax for $120-ish a long time ago
TI-92+: For Christmas a few years ago, from TI's online store
TI-89 Titanium: My dad gave it to me for some occasion
TI-81s: both from eBay for between $10-$30 (the more expensive one had the original box & manual)
TI-82: eBay again, probably about the same price as the TI-81s (& it included the box & manual, too)
TI-83+: someone thought it was dead & gave it to me
TI-83 Viewscreen: From my high school's math department. It is (still) dead. :(

Ti83 - Got it from my mom
Ti83Plus SE-Bought it at Staples for $129.99, screwed it up about a month later, sent it to Ti-Cares, they fixed it, sent me a New Ti83Plus SE, and sent me my fixed Ti83Plus SE. Now i have two Ti83Plus SE's!!

Yeah it was staples. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

-W-

Who built their own????

That's obvious if you think about it long enough(besides the lying people)

I got my 83+SE on eBay for $100. That was about $20 less than it cost at stores (Office Max, etc.) at the time.

hahaha i bought my ti 83+from ebay for about $10 it works perfectly

o yeah it still had the manual (have you noticed that they dont # it correctly cause they dont want you to pass out when you see how long it is) also a link came with it EbAy RuLeS

I miss the option "Got it frm school", since that where I got mine :)

I bought my TI-89 Titanium off of a friend on eBay.

Nearly Mint Condition too ^_^