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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
A total of 40,000 units were sold; 90% of them in the United States where the sale price was $3,200 [4] (increasing to about $3,500 in 1968. [7]) About 10 [19] Programma 101 were sold to NASA and used to plan the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. By Apollo 11 we had a desktop computer, sort of, kind of, called an Olivetti Programma 101.
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 ...
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 electronic calculator to run off replaceable batteries. Using four AA-size cells the LE-120A measures 4.9 by 2.8 by 0.9 inches ...
The HP-65 was one of the first calculators to include a base conversion function, although it only supported octal (base 8) conversion. It could also perform conversions between degrees/minutes/seconds ( sexagesimal ) and decimal degree ( sexadecimal ) values, as well as polar/cartesian coordinate conversion.