Articles or book(s) about the functions behind a scientific calculator

[Karl-Ludwig Butte]

(11-29-2018 09:08 AM)brickviking Wrote:  

(11-29-2018 08:16 AM)Karl-Ludwig Butte Wrote:  By the way, what do you mean by "A modest SE query..."?

SE query... Search Engine query. I wouldn't exactly have called it modest though. I'd never heard of either ICL or the KDF9.

(Post 320)

Hi Brickviking,

if you are generally interested in computer history, you can use this as a pretext to dive into British computer history. Along the way you'll meet the Cambridge Computer Lab's EDSAC computer and its builder Maurice Wilkes, meet the first Office Computer LEO built by Oliver Standingford, Raymond Thompson and David Caminer at J. Lyons and Co. (and perhaps read the highly recommended book "A Computer named Leo" by Georgina Ferry), and finally arrive at ICL and KDF9, descendants of LEO and Leo Computers Ltd.

Best regards

Karl

P.S. Use the underlined words as search words and you'll find plenty of information.