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Sharp QT-8D Micro Compet front view. The Sharp QT-8D Micro Compet, a small electronic desktop calculator, was the first mass-produced calculator to have its logic circuitry entirely implemented with LSI (large-scale integration) integrated circuits (ICs) based on MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology.
1100-3A - The 1100-3A is a black and grey/gray 3.2 oz. desktop calculator made with 50% recycled plastic and has a 10 digit angled LCD display. It has 3-key independent memory and tax keys. [11] 1180-3A - The 1180-3A is a 4.8 oz black desktop calculator with a 12 digit angled LCD display. It is made with 40% recycled plastic and it has cost ...
The first truly pocket-sized electronic calculator was the Busicom LE-120A "HANDY", which was marketed early in 1971. [42] Made in Japan, this was also the first calculator to use an LED display, the first hand-held calculator to use a single integrated circuit (then proclaimed as a "calculator on a chip"), the Mostek MK6010, and the first ...
The Aurora FN1000 calculator in clamshell design was closely inspired by the HP-12C in 2003. Capitalizing on the limited availability of the HP 12c Platinum 25th Anniversary Edition, Victor Technology released the Victor V12 in 2007 which was a budget priced clone of the HP 12c Platinum edition. It is also available as BrtC FC-12 in Brazil.
The Sharp EL-8, also known as the ELSI-8, [1] was one of the earliest mass-produced hand-held electronic calculators [1] and the first hand-held calculator to be made by Sharp. Introduced around the start of 1971, [ note 1 ] it was based on Sharp's preceding QT-8D and QT-8B compact desktop calculators and used the same logic circuits, but it ...
1986 edition of TI-35 PLUS TI-36 SOLAR, first edition. It can display 10 digits mantissa with 2 digits exponent, and calculates with 12-digit precision internally.. TI-36 SOLAR was based on 1985 version of TI-35 PLUS, but incorporates solar cells.
The first scientific calculator that included all of the basic ideas above was the programmable Hewlett-Packard HP-9100A, [5] released in 1968, though the Wang LOCI-2 and the Mathatronics Mathatron [6] had some features later identified with scientific calculator designs.
ANITA Mk VIII. The ANITA Mark VII and ANITA Mark VIII calculators were launched simultaneously in late 1961 as the world's first all-electronic desktop calculators. [1] [2] Designed and built by the Bell Punch Co. in Britain, and marketed through its Sumlock Comptometer division, they used vacuum tubes and cold-cathode switching tubes in their logic circuits and nixie tubes for their numerical ...