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It’s possible quite a few of our older readers will remember the period from the 1960s into the ’70s when an electronic calculator was the cutting edge of consumer-grade digital technology.
In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...
These were replaced with electronic calculators, some also swinging from belt loops, but no matter how small they were, they still were not that handy, no pun intended. That changed around 1975.
They wanted a flashy product to showcase the IC. A calculator seemed just the thing. In a mere two years, a TI group including Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel, and led by Jack Kilbydeveloped a ...
Casio Computer Co., Ltd. announced today the release of the MS-20UC-J commemorative calculator models featuring traditional ...
A professor, John W. Mauchly, had circulated some memos about how a powerful new kind of electronic calculator could produce benefits to the war effort in areas like setting munitions trajectories.
The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) stipulates that, except for exams for language subjects, candidates should bring and use only the electronic calculators that meet its ...
In the fields of engineering and electrical design as they exist today, the term “calculator” can refer to physical handheld ...