<> >First programable calc <> <> Then there is the "first solid state electronic calc" which I think goe <> the Busicom from Japan that employed the first production run of the in <> 4000 chip set: the 4001 (2048 bit ROM), 4002 (320 bit RAM), 4003 (10 bi No, this was not the first by a long means. I vaguely remember a desktop HP job that was years earlier. There were designs that were RTL and utililogic and even earlier designs that were about the size of a desk drawer that were both totally electronic and to some extent programable. Allison