31 Oct
2006
31 Oct
'06
1:49 p.m.
On 11/1/06, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
A slang term that refers to simple calculators that only know how to
do do the basic four operations, addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division.
I.e. - you can only "bang out" four types of operations on the keyboard.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Four+Banger (meaning 2)
http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv013.cgi?read=40869
-ethan
I think the point here was to differentiate
simple "four-banger
calculators" from computing devices, not to exclude something that is
"Four-banger"?