20 Aug
1998
20 Aug
'98
4:49 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Alex Knight wrote:
So far, I haven't either. The Anita and Friden EC-130 electronic
calculators both came out in 1963, they're generally regarded as
the first two electronic desktop calculators but neither are
I reckon that the original Anita was 1962. The reason I say this is
because my mother used to be a comptometer operator for the national coal
board (in the UK.) She distinctly remembers showing my father the
electronic comptometer before the company christmas dance in 1962. (It was
the year before they were married.) She also remembers that they
complained about the display and that Sumlock took them away for a while
and the brought them back with a new filter in front on the nixie tubes.
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Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/