To: Daffynition
In the 60s came the Friden calculater ...
We used to program them to play Yankee Doodle.
Then came the first electronic calculator, by Friden ...
.. priced at ~ $1,200 as I recall.
19 posted on
12/26/2011 6:03:30 AM PST by
shove_it
(just undo it)
To: shove_it
Jack lemmon at his desk in "The Apartment"
21 posted on
12/26/2011 6:39:43 AM PST by
Bobalu
(even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
To: shove_it
24 posted on
12/26/2011 7:02:56 AM PST by
Daffynition
(*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
To: shove_it
26 posted on
12/26/2011 7:06:58 AM PST by
Daffynition
(*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
To: shove_it
And all the durn thing could do was add, subtract, multiply and divide!
27 posted on
12/26/2011 7:12:52 AM PST by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: shove_it
When I took Freshman Chemistry, it was the first year they replaced slide rules with calculators. I bought one of these awesome state-of-the-art beauties at an office supply house. It was used, and therefore only half price at $40.00.
Two years later I could have gotten a wristwatch calculator at the swap meet for five bucks.
44 posted on
12/26/2011 9:05:23 AM PST by
Jeff Chandler
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
To: shove_it; Bobalu
In the 60's came the Friden calculator. That model (STW-10) came out in 1949. The Apartment is from 1960.
During the Manhattan Project there was a unit that did calculations, managed by Richard Feynman. I have read that they used Friden calculators.
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