+  H-kon.net Free Computer Help Forums.
|-+  English» The Lounge» Forty years of the calculator!
Username:
Password:
Home Help Search Calendar Login Register
Pages: 1   Go Down
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Forty years of the calculator!  (Read 570 times)
themystic
Global Moderator
Sr. Member
*****
Posts: 123


View Profile
« on: September 30, 2007, 10:15:21 AM »
Mechanical calculators have been around for over 100 years, but today we celebrate the pocket calculator!

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070930
Logged
H-kon
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 862


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2007, 11:07:21 AM »
40 years already? I am not that old, but i do have a veeery old Commodore pocket calculator with red display.  My mom bought it before i was born, and i am 31 soon so Smiley

Logged
H-kon.net Admin
themystic
Global Moderator
Sr. Member
*****
Posts: 123


View Profile
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2007, 02:21:32 PM »
My dad rediscovered his "credit card size" calculator he bought in Vegas over 25 years ago. About 1.5mm thick. Pretty good for a 25 year old calculator Smiley
Logged
Pages: 1   Go Up
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Theme by m3talc0re. Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines MySQL | PHP | XHTML | CSS
Page created in 0.556 seconds with 19 queries.