“A Craving for Calculation”

[vaklaff]

Article at https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a...lculation/

[toml_12953]

(11-17-2024 03:26 PM)vaklaff Wrote:  Article at https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a...lculation/

Great link! Thanks. The early days of calculators and small computers were an exciting time. I feel sorry for anyone too young to have experienced them.

[Eddie W. Shore]

Thank you for the article!

[vaklaff]

(11-17-2024 10:21 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  Great link! Thanks. The early days of calculators and small computers were an exciting time. I feel sorry for anyone too young to have experienced them.

I missed that era. I was sort of too young (born 1971) and worse, behind the iron curtain. I've been rediscovering it for the past few years :-)

And sorry for the overly brief original post, I meant to add a few words what the article is about but got distracted but SHMBO.

[Matt Agajanian]

Excellent article! Bookmarked for future reference.

[Marc van Lemmen]

Nice article ! And indeed exciting times .....

[Steve Simpkin]

That was a great summary article!

The following articles are related. They are from the Articles Section of the Vintage Calculator Web Museum.

The Story of the Race to Develop the Pocket Electronic Calculator - For hundreds of years performing complex calculations was a difficult and tedious chore. Multiplication, division, and taking square roots required paper and pencil and a lot of concentration. Some assistance became available with the invention of the slide rule and logarithm tables, and during the 20th century, the development of mechanical calculators. It was during the 1960s and early 1970s that a great revolution in calculator technology occurred.

The Arrival of the "Calculator-on-a-Chip" - During the late 1960s and early 1970s a major aim of the calculator electronics companies was to integrate all of the functionality of a calculator into one integrated circuit, so producing a "Calculator-on-a Chip". The development effort eventually led to several companies introducing, around the same time, integrated circuits that provided all of the functionality of a calculator in one integrated circuit - that is they employed a, so-called, "Calculator-on-a-chip".

The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor: - The fascinating story of why the development of a calculator led to the development of the first commercial microprocessor, and the unexpected consequences.

[Thomas Klemm]

Quote:If the Internet Archive were up I could check whether any of them reveal the secret magic of the number 5,318,008, but alas.

It seems that we never grow up.