Relive your high school years with the latest project from the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive now has scientific calculators in its database, complete working emulations of iconic models.

If you’ve been reading BeGeek for a while, chances are you’ve used a scientific calculator in one way or another in math class. Maybe it’s still lying at the bottom of your drawer, gathering dust. If you can’t get it, the latest project, The Internet Archive, can help.

The Internet Archive database now has scientific calculators.

With the help of the Multi Purpose Emulation (MAME) team, a project that has spent the last 25 years creating software to emulate all sorts of gadgets, the archive is now able to offer emulated versions of some of the most popular calculators of the decade. past. In total , The Calculator Drawer offers Internet Archive visitors no less than 14 different templates, templates that they can definitely play with. Obviously, we find the legendary Texas Instruments TI-8X from the 1990s next to the HP models.

Full working emulations of iconic models

Unfortunately, not all calculators from the last 25 years are present. For example, you won’t find the Casio fx-7000g, the world’s first graphing calculator, on this list, but if you used Texas Instruments or HP in high school, high school, or college, chances are it will bring back memories.. And if you feel like that all those buttons are silencing you, don’t panic: the Internet Archive also has user manuals for most of these calculators.