Your First Handheld?

[htom trites]

If memory serves, Mom gave me a Post Versatrig 1450 when I was in high school. In college (1965), I started with a Versalog 1460 and then a Versalog II 1460 and a pocket Versalog II 1461. Then there were Pickett and K&E and Dietzgen and Acu-Math as I started teaching slide rule. Calculators were desktop mechanical machines by Monroe and Friedan, and the electronic Wang.

The HP-35 changed my world.

Then the 25, 29c, 19c, 12c, 11c ... 41c, 41cv ... and several of the 48s and a 49, which I didn't use much, the 41 were more mind-friendly. A 42s in a thrift store got me to collecting, which I keep trying not to do.