16 Apr
2024
16 Apr
'24
8:11 p.m.
On Tue, 2024-04-16 at 11:31 -0700, Stan via cctalk wrote:
I've never heard of the HP Digital Slide Rule. Do
you have photos
and/or more details?
No photos. Sorry, I didn't have an iPhone when I was a college freshman
in 1965. I never saw one, anyway. We got by with Monroe and Friden
mechanical calculators, full of gears and cams. One of them could even
do square roots.
I am familiar with the first HP desktop calculator
(9100A) that
inspired their first handheld calculator (HP-35). The HP-35 was a
ten-digit calculator that was released in 1972 for $395.
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bject: [cctalk] Re: Bomar 901b My wife found in my stuff. Is this as
scarce at it seems?s,?
On Tue, 2024-04-16 at 12:38 +0100, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
901B is the first pocket calculator I remember -
I don't know if
there were earlier ones.
The first one I remember is the HP Digital Slide Rule, about 1965.
Six digits. $600.