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Each bead represents one unit (e.g. 74 can be represented by shifting all beads on 7 wires and 4 beads on the 8th wire, so numbers up to 100 may be represented). In the bead frame shown, the gap between the 5th and 6th wire, corresponding to the color change between the 5th and the 6th bead on each wire, suggests the latter use.
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.
Old brick advert of Facit-Odhner, New York. (Facit-Odhner was a sub-sidiary of Facit) Facit calculating machine, 1954 Elof Ericsson (1887–1961), founder in 1922 of AB Åtvidabergs Industrier. Photo from 1937. Facit (Facit AB) was an industrial corporation and manufacturer of office products including furniture.
Friden Calculator Friden Flexowriter. In 1957, Friden purchased the Commercial Controls Corporation of Rochester, New York.This gave them the Flexowriter teleprinter, an electric typewriter capable of being used as part of unit record equipment developed in World War II for the Department of the Navy to automatically type "regret to inform you" letters to the survivors of fallen servicemen ...
The calculator was code-named Wizard, [4] which is the first known use of a code name for a calculator. It also contained an Easter egg that allowed users to access a not-especially accurate stopwatch mode. [5] [6] An accurate version of the stopwatch mode was officially featured in the 1975 successor of the HP-45, the HP-55.
That was a common feature in the 1960s desktop computer/programmable calculator and only HP provided a true Von Neumann architecture which allowed for self-modifying code, [12] similarly to the contemporary general-purpose mainframes and minicomputers.
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The calculator uses the proprietary HP Nut processor produced in a bulk CMOS process and featured continuous memory, whereby the contents of memory are preserved while the calculator is turned off. [13] Though commonplace now, this was still notable in the early 1980s, and is the origin of the "C" in the model name.