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-=> Mortar M. wrote to Ed Vance <=-
> The first calculator cost me $79.00, it was a Four Banger with a Constant
> Key and NO Memory.
MM> What`s a "four banger"?
Artithmetic only? Add, Subtract, Multiply, divide?
MM> My first was a Sharp EL-5100. I forget the price, but I think it was
MM> around the same as yours. Loved that thing. It had the unique feature
MM> of being able to (mostly) type out algebraic expressions like you would
MM> on paper.
I ordered a calculator after collecting box tops from some breakfast
cereal in the late `70s. Then, slim wallet calculators became the rage
- right about the time, albeit brief, that nylon/velcro wallets were
"cool".
It wasn`t many years later before the first calculator watches came
out, my parents had a friend who worked at Hewlett Packard and had one
of their calculator watches - the LED model with a stylus.
My black rubber Casio calculator watch had to wait until much later.
I still have a drawer full of calculators - a couple of HP business
models including a vintage HP 12c, a couple of HP scientifics, another
of the CASIO Programmable calculator I used in the early `80s (bought
off eBay last year and still on the original battery!) and a couple of
scientific calculators. I keep a solar Casio scientific at my desk,
mostly because I hate having to look for a calculator app on my
desktop, and clicking buttons with a mouse feels *wrong*.
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