30 Oct
2006
30 Oct
'06
8:20 a.m.
... Personally I wouldn't consider ...
anything which called itself a calculator
rather than a computer ...
Now you are reminding me of some University politics from the 1970's.
At the time I started work at City University there was a policy of
"no departmental computers" (quite strongly enforced through the budgetry
system).
Unfortunately the net effect of this policy was that, instead of buying
sensible PDP-11s and the like, the departments bought overpriced "data
loggers" that just happened to come with BASIC or the like - it wouldn't
surprise me if there were some "calculators" bought that were similar.
As always the law of unintended consequences took charge.
Andy