21 Sep
2021
21 Sep
'21
11:48 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 00:01, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The TI people were selling their chip as a simple four
operation
calculator. Here is what the Sinclair people did with it:
http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html
And that's where the "world's first" comes from: ".. the
world's first
single-chip scientific calculator," - i.e. not the first pocket
calculator, of course. Just the first single-chip scientific
calculator, or at least the first low-priced one (and the smallest one
too, at the time).