[CholeraJoe]

I bought my first calculator in 1974. It ran on four AA batteries and cost $300. It could do square roots and I needed that for some drug dosing formulas.

[xsmommy]

being considerably younger than you, i also bought my first calculator in 1974, with my graduation $. it was a bowmar brain, and it cost well over $200. my brother, the engineer, had an HP when he was a senior in HS, he is a year younger than i.