Before the smartphone, earlier than the Palm Pilot, earlier than…I dunno, really, I’m not that outdated. But in some unspecified time in the future within the nebulous previous, you didn’t have an oz. of nerd cred if there wasn’t some sort of superior graphing calculator in your backpack. Thanks to the Internet Archive (of the Wayback Machine fame), now you can see how these traditional machines operated with out having to lay our a fortune on eBay.

Spotted by Ars Technica, the Calculator Drawer is a group of emulated calculators that may be run on-line from any browser. Emulating graphing calculators is nothing new — you will discover any variety of them on your cellphone. But that is certainly essentially the most full assortment as but assembled in a single place. At launch there are 14 traditional fashions to select from, largely from the Texas Instruments catalog. Heavy hitters embody the TI-83 Plus, the TI89, and the “big daddy” TI 92.

Just a few fashions from HP (common with accountants and economics majors) are current as properly, together with the “Electronic Number Muncher” from child’s electronics producer VTech. And if you happen to actually wish to nerd out, you’ll be able to peruse 10 totally different uploaded textual content manuals as properly.