Casio Scientific Calculator FX-992S

Posted by Lester Chan at 19:05 in Gadget

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My first scientific calculator was the Casio FX-992S which I bought it in Secondary 2 in 1998 when I was 14 years old. It lasted me through my secondary education, polytechnic education as well as my 2 years and 2 months in national service. It finally broke down during my 2nd year in university in 2007 just few hours before my exams! The calculator lasted me for 9 years! After it broke down, I borrowed my brother scientific calculator, he is also using the Casio FX-992S and he got it during his secondary school days. I predict it will have another 3 more years lifespan as he is going to national service soon if his calculator followed the timeline of my calculator.

I went to NUS Co-Op to see if there is any calculator to buy, to my surprise the FX-992S still exists! However there is another modal also from Casio called the “Natural Textbook Display” FX-991ES. I was contemplating between the both, the price difference is about SGD$3. End up I went for the good old trusted FX-992S for SGD$29.70.

FX-992S Box And Manual

FX-992S Cover And Front View

The New FX-992S

The Old FX-992S

The only difference between the FX-992S now and the FX-992S 9 years ago is that the 9 years ago button area is made of metal, whereas now it is made of plastic.

Tags: calculator, Casio, FX-992S, scientific

Weiquan

Comment #1

17:36
Thursday, 19th February 2009

Lol, can tell that you have deep feelings for your calculator.

WiRuS

Comment #2

11:13
Friday, 20th February 2009

actually u should have bought the new model instead.. more worth.. wun phase out..

but actually calculators wun phase out ba..

Shaun

Comment #3

21:25
Tuesday, 24th February 2009

Surprising you can use this calculator for so long. Think mine already kaboom quite sometime ago. Now it seems I won’t touch a calculator with less than 2 lines of dot matrix screen real estate!

Come to think about it, I still have a working scientific calculator which I still have (but used) since secondary school, think it’s one generation before the fx-9xx series, it does not have a hard slide on cover but have this soft black plastic flip which you can open it like a book.

Lester Chan

Comment #4

00:08
Wednesday, 25th February 2009

Oh that! I remember my cousin is using it. lol

Seth

Comment #5

10:33
Friday, 13th March 2009

so how do you enter a number to a negative power? For example, [(1 minus 1.006 to the power of -276) divided by 0.006] multiply by 1798.97? i’m supposed to get 242,306.86 but i just can’t get it in this model

Lester Chan

Comment #6

14:29
Friday, 13th March 2009

Press X^Y button?

Press 1 – 1.006 then the answer press “X^Y” button then press 276 followed by the ” /-” button then ans divided by 0.006?

Seth

Comment #7

23:05
Tuesday, 17th March 2009

you actually got the answer by pressing the steps given? i just can’t get it and i’m stuck using this calculator model.. i wonder how i got through my ‘o’ levels with this calculator back then..

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