8 May
1998
8 May
'98
5:26 p.m.
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
I've never seen one, but now I'm intrigued. I checked the web for a pic,
and the closest I could find is a soviet calc belonging to our own Andrew
Davie (where is that guy?) that is said to have a display similar to the
EL-8 (and it is very cool looking):
http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/slide/calculator/c3-07.html
-- doug
Somebody was
describing this same calculator to me yesterday. It was the
Sharp EL-8 and had a 9-segment display.
I still have mine, though regrettably it does not respond to power now.
The display tubes are 9 elements, but only 8 segments. The ninth being a
decimal point. My recollection is that the numerals looked blue, but the
plastic window over the tubes is about Kelly green. Does orange filtered
through green look blue?