This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race

[Bill Duncan]

An amusing article on slashdot, linked to a twitter thread as well.

This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race

[edryer]

I followed the link above to the twitter account and images:

https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status...27360?s=09

What is fascinating is I hadn't heard of the 1967 "Cal tech"...



Nor.... the 1970...



These surely were the first true battery powered "portable" calculators... solid state as well.

[Didier Lachieze]

(12-27-2018 07:45 PM)edryer Wrote:  What is fascinating is I hadn't heard of the 1967 "Cal tech"...

You may be interrested by the detailed story of How the Computer Got Into Your Pocket.

[John Keith]

Kinda cute how the Pocketronic's tape doubles as the display. I guess it saved the cost of LED displays.

[Dave Frederickson]

Dave Britten posted this link to a BEGIN Japanology battle between Casio and Sharp to make the first sub-1mm thick calculator.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-386...l#pid35156

Here's a current link to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKVvvvkshtk&t=1s