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The Monroe EPIC was a programmable calculator that came on the market in the 1964. 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.
In the United States, several faster Bombe machines were created. [60] Women, like Louise Pearsall, were recruited from the WAVES to work on code breaking and operate the American Bombe machines. [61] Hedy Lamarr and co-inventor, George Antheil, worked on a frequency hopping method to help the Navy control torpedoes remotely. [62]
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 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
Obsolete technology website — Information about many old computers. old-computers.com — Web Site dedicated to old computers. oldcomputer.info — Web site with information about many old computers. History of Computers — online magazine featuring pictures and information about many computers made between the 1970s and the early 1990s
Hugh Hefner, the man who created a magazine empire, died Wednesday at the age of 91. His legacy includes some of the most famous Playboy playmates ever to grace the cover and go one to become ...
For example, the 1961 Semiconductor Network Computer (Molecular Electronic Computer, Mol-E-Com), [10] [11] [12] the first monolithic integrated circuit [13] [14] [15] general purpose computer (built for demonstration purposes, programmed to simulate a desk calculator) was built by Texas Instruments for the US Air Force.
Friden made a calculator that also provided square roots, basically by doing division, but with added mechanism that automatically incremented the number in the keyboard in a systematic fashion. The last of the mechanical calculators were likely to have short-cut multiplication, and some ten-key, serial-entry types had decimal-point keys.