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		persnickety 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UI is hell: four-function calculators There were calculators in the '90s where the display would go faint when you covered the tiny solar panel. Perhaps the battery was already drained. Quite common I would say.

saagarjha 9 months ago [–]

I had one in the 2010s when I was going through grade school. Casio fx-260 solar; it would die in seconds if you covered the panel.

aitchnyu 9 months ago | [–]

The screen would go faint and slow when the power sources werent running at peak.

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