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The Monroe EPIC was a programmable calculator that came on the market in the 1960s. It consisted of a large desktop unit which attached to a floor-standing logic tower and was capable of being programmed to perform many computer-like functions.
The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (HP 9100A) is an early programmable calculator [3] (or computer), first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a ...
The original TI-30. The TI-30 is a scientific calculator manufactured by Texas Instruments, the first model of which was introduced in 1976.While the original TI-30 was discontinued in 1983 after several design revisions, TI maintains the TI-30 designation as a branding for its low and mid-range scientific calculators.
Smaller programmable model with programs up to 49 steps. Version HP-25C was first calculator with "continuous memory". HP-27S: 1988 The first HP pocket calculator to use algebraic notation only rather than RPN. It was a "do all" calculator that included algebraic solver like the HP-18C, statistical, probability and time/value of money ...
Some calculators that had been serviced had dials that were mispositioned by (probably) 3.6 degrees; the gears weren't quite meshed correctly when reassembled. 1960s SCM Marchant calculator. The calculator was very complicated compared to, for example the Friden STW, a machine notable for its relative internal simplicity.
The Victor 3900 is the first electronic calculator to have been built entirely of integrated circuits (ICs). [1] [2] For its era, the 3900 is extremely advanced; it has a 4-inch (100 mm) cathode ray tube screen to produce a 5-line display, has separate memory for storing three intermediate results, supports numerical rounding, and is still "smaller than a typewriter".
The New York Times reports that the Carleton Sheets infomercials that were ubiquitous a couple years ago are now off the air, as the real estate training mogul struggles with his tarnished ...
Also available for the TI-59 and TI-58 was a thermal printer (the PC-100A, B, and C models); the calculator was mounted on top of the printer and locked in place with a key. The calculator can be programmed to request input from the user, and output results of calculations to the printer.