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The pocket calculator is 40 years old!


Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:42 pm
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1967 Texas Instruments came up with a pocket calculator that was 1 kg heavy and could do the four basic ways of counting: multiply, adding, substract and deviding (spelling). It was probobly not the fastest one but hey...

So horray for the pocket calculator.

By the way I've got a Texas Instrument TI-86 Grafic calculator and that one is a really good one...

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Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:11 pm
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Casio Graph 100 POWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :robertdugenou:
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Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:31 pm
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Kraftwerk sang about it! :D
Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:40 pm
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Yeah, we must celebrate the pocket calculator being 40 years old in style - enjoy. :smoke:
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Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:38 pm
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Robi wrote:Kraftwerk sang about it! :D
:D It was non-uniform day today (Jeans For Genes) and I went in dressed with black jeans, red shirt, black tie. Man Machine all the way :D
Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:42 pm
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It looked like this:
The first handheld calculator. 8)
A paper tape was used insted of digital numbers.


The first "official" pocket calculator - Sinclair Executive, introduced in August 1972.

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Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:20 pm
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jarrekid wrote:
Robi wrote:Kraftwerk sang about it! :D
:D It was non-uniform day today (Jeans For Genes) and I went in dressed with black jeans, red shirt, black tie. Man Machine all the way :D
Glad we don't wear uniforms in France :nod:
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Nico_Noyau wrote:Casio Graph 100 POWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :robertdugenou:
Texas Instruments TI84+ 8) :P
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Post Posted Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:42 pm
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I have a TI84 because it was required for the math lessons. Now I don't know what to do about it.
Post Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:46 pm
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Jakob BC wrote:I have a TI84 because it was required for the math lessons. Now I don't know what to do about it.
Wait until the summer holidays. Then you can sell them for huge prices at Ebay for example :)
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Post Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:47 pm
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Define 'huge'... :mrgreen:
Post Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:50 pm
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E 70/80 :P
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Post Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:52 pm
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Call that huge? :pwned:
Post Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:53 pm
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Hmm, it's more than I paid for it, new :P
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Post Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:56 pm
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Yeah, but still that's not a huge amount of money :punch:







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