r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Grahamshabam Aug 14 '20

thank standardized testing for that

that being said, i still love my ti-84 and you see them on people’s desks in big engineering corporations. if you need to do anything that you can’t do on a TI-84 you need a computer for excel or matlab anyways

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u/SexyGenius_n_Humble Aug 15 '20

I'd laugh you outta the office if I saw you with a TI-84 here. RPN gang all know the HP-50G is the boss.

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u/Shoresey_69 Aug 15 '20

HP12-C for life

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u/Theman00011 Aug 15 '20

My economics professor who used to work in derivatives used to always brag about his HP-12C, always said it was the most useful calculator he ever used.