3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
9:08 a.m.
Jerome Fine wrote:
I
purchased mine in 1956 when calculators probably did not exist. It is
probably still around somewhere.
Desktop electronic calculators (not to mention, handheld electronic
calcuators) didn't come into existence until the early 1960's. There
were motor-driven mechanical calculators that were pretty sophisticated
in '56, but anything that was electronic that behaved like a calculator
were in Desk-sized units, such as Monroe's Monrobot calculators
(introduced to the world on TV in the '54 election, calculating who
would win the presidency), Casio's relay-based "desk" calculators, and a
few other machines sprinkled around the world.
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com