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Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970

Except for that rabid gang of early adopters, most of us hold back on purchasing new technology; it's only going to get cheaper (not to mention less buggy). If you need an example of this, take a peek at the Sharp LC-8 advertised here. One of the first wave of transistorized electronic calculators in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the LC-8 was an exciting advance in handheld technology. More »

12:40 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Lynn Peril
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