<![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970 - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970 - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> What really amazes me is that the Palm Centro I have as my telephone, organizer, etc. is more powerful than the desktop computer I owned 13 years ago.

lever2k

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> i have a realy old hp21 RPN calculatior that I ought to try and get fixed.

Mouser_UK

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> I bought my first calculator in 1978 for High School. I had to go to a calculator shop to do it. Back in the day these things were not sold in office supply stores the only place to get one was a specialty store. At least in Reading U.K. Bought a TI 30, with a red LED screen. I still have it today, its still works (But to be honest I use Calculator.app on my iMac for my modern number crunching needs.

Jamesema

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> 80085?

SoulCarnival

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> @zeppelined:

It was really choppy for me too preloaded and I am using IE. Usually don't have a problem with Gawker videos.

icarusprime

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> I still have the first "pocket" calculator I bought in 1974. A small Sharp handheld green LED unit, about an inch thick, three inches long and two inches wide. It cost about $20 bucks, and I had to get an advance on my allowance to buy it. It still works on 2 AAA batteries, although a couple of the keys have to be pressed really hard to work.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> ps, you can see a curta in action on video
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da5id_nz

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> pps, speaking of retro - before the electronic calculator came out, the best thing you could get to add/subtract/multiply/divide etc was the CURTA, invented by a Jewish man in Hitler's concentration camps.

They used to advertise it on the back page of Scientific American (see ads on site from 1961 and 1971) for $125.00

At the time this was a huge leap from the suitcase-sized adding machines that visiting accountants would have to carry around.

da5id_nz

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> I posted on Lifehacker's site HERE (with photos!) that I have a SHARP calculator circa: 1985 that STILL has the ORIGINAL batteries in it!

I know that might be hard to believe but it is true!

da5id_nz

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> @zeppelined: They run fine for me if I let them preload and I'm using Firefox too. Odd.

PriorMarcus

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> And to think, my $600 Mac Minni has a calculator widget that is almost an afterthought.

Want to really blow your mind: We put a man on the moon with less computational power than is available in an iPod.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> Hm. io9 videos always run choppy for me, even when I let them preload. Wonder if it's a Firefox thing.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> Hard to believe based on these adds but Electronic Calculator Systems at 15 W 44th St is out of business. I wonder if there are some of these gizmos still floating around in the back room at the now Nihon Med-Spa?

Midwesterner in NYC

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> I, for one, welcome our mighty calculator overlords...

JoeyTheHobo

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> what's the name of that backwards-3 letter again?

BlacklistedJoe

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> Well, I'm still holding out hope that Calculators of the future do look like that, so screw you - unbelievers!

PriorMarcus

]]> <![CDATA[Three-Pound Mini-Calculators Were The Wave of the Future Circa 1970]]> my dear old english pops always reminds me (when i complain about the price of a TI calculator) that the first calculator he bought cost him over a grand (back in the day to boot).

fabescore

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