3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
6:02 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Here's my favorite (for some def. of favorite),
from 1969, the ugliest
electronic calculator ever made:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/eec/calcs/CommodoreDAC612.html
The guts of this machine were made by Casio -- with the ugly cabinet
courtesy of Commodore.
I do agree with Brent that this is one of the most unattractive desktop
electronic calculators made. The combination of the brown upper case and
white lower case, with the funky '70's woodgrain top is just too much.
By the way, it'd be very interesting to find out the nomenclature on the
circuit boards of the machine. Casio used an internal numbering scheme
that usually consisted of a two-digit number, followed by an alphabetic
character, followed by a dash, and then the board number. For example
14A-3 would indicate board number 3 of the machine with internal code of
14A.
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com