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The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s. Pocket-sized devices became available in the 1970s, especially after the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor, was developed by Intel for the Japanese calculator company Busicom. Modern electronic calculators vary from cheap, give-away, credit-card-sized models to ...
When electronic calculators were originally marketed they normally had only four or five capabilities (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and square root). Modern scientific calculators generally have many more capabilities than the original four- or five-function calculator, and the capabilities differ between manufacturers and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hand-held electronic calculators store programs on magnetic strips, removable read-only memory cartridges, flash memory, or in battery-backed read/write memory. Since the early 1990s, most of these flexible handheld units belong to the class of graphing calculators .
IBM 604 Electronic Calculator at NEMO national science museum in Amsterdam. Note plugboard control panel used to program the 604, at bottom.. The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch was the world's first mass-produced electronic calculator along with its predecessor the IBM 603. [1]
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Electronic calculators by company (10 C, 2 P) G. Graphing calculators (1 C, 39 P) P. Programmable calculators (7 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Electronic calculators"